"'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'" - G. K. Chesterton, The Defendant

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it." - George Bernard Shaw

"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people." - Adams, John in 'Novanglus', 'Boston Gazette' 06 Feb 1775

"Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea." - Carlin, George

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." - Hale, Nathan (1755-1776) speech before being executed as a spy by the British 22 Sep 1776

"Gentlemen may cry 'Peace! Peace!' but there is no peace... Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains & slavery?... I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" - Henry, Patrick at the Virginia Convention 23 Mar 1775

"If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is WITH representation." - Old Farmers Almanac

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Paine, Thomas (1737-1809) in 'The American Crisis' 23 December 1776

"Our true nationality is mankind." - Wells, H. G.