1. George Washington - “Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.”

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2. Unknown - “Quite a number of people also describe the German classical author, Shakespeare as belonging to the English literature, because — quite accidentally born at Stratford-on-Avon, he was forced by the authorities of that country to write in English.”

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3. Mark Twain - “It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”

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4. Maurice F. Strong - “A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime.”

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5. George A. Sloan - “The nations of the world look to the people of this country for leadership. They have seen our youth in action. They have seen their courage and their strength. Off the battlefield they have seen and admired the human kindness and the tolerance of the men who went overseas for us and for them. May we stand firm in our conviction that America has achieved a way of life that we can all cherish—and cherishing, strive ever to guard and improve.”

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6. William Shakespeare - “Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.”

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7. Elihu Root - “True love of country is not mere blind partisanship. It is regard for the people of one’s country and all of them; it is a feeling of fellowship and brotherhood for all of them; it is a desire for the prosperity and happiness of all of them; it is kindly and considerate judgment toward all of them. The first duty of popular self-government is individual self-control. The essential condition of true progress is that it shall be based upon grounds of reason, and not prejudice. Lincoln’s noble sentiment of charity for all and malice toward none was not a specific for the Civil War, but is a living principle of action.”

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8. Thomas Paine - “These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily”

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9. Joseph de Maistre - “Every country has the government it deserves.”

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10. Dalai Lama - “One country ... one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches ... We can then make a joint effort to solve the problems of the whole of humankind.”

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11. Diogenes Laertius - “Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, 'I am a citizen of the world.'”

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12. John Fitzgerald Kennedy - “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”

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13. Herbert Clark Hoover - “My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.”

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14. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - “It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.”

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15. John Heywood - “He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay.”

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16. Kahlil Gibran - “Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country.”

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17. Henry Ford II - “Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous. We should remember, as we look toward the future, that the more fully we believe in and achieve freedom and equal opportunity — not simply for ourselves but for others — the greater our accomplishments as a nation will be.”

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18. Ralph Waldo Emerson - “Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.”

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19. Eugene Victor Debs - “I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.”

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20. William Cowper - “God made the country, and man made the town.”

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21. Marcus Tullius Cicero - “Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country.”

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22. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - “He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.”

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23. William Congreve - “I nauseate walking; ‘tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.”

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24. Joseph Addison - “What a pity is it That we can die but once to save our country!”

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25. John Dalberg, Lord Acton - “The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.”

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