Patriotism Quote by Voltaire

“…and the mousesized mousecolored spinster trembling and aghast at her own temerity, staring across it at the childless bachelor in whom ended that long…

— William Faulkner

“Kings and marshals can look back and relive their triumphs, their great victories. We common folk must take what pleasure we can from life's…

— Raymond E. Feist

“All good knights, pilgrims, sons in search of fortune, seekers after truth, and plain ordinary fools, turn towards the city they have left and…

— H. V. Morton

“The country has turned its loyal inhabitants into wanderers similar to the survivors of an apocalypse.”

— Rami Ollaik

“Plundering and stealing, cheating and lying, laboring, fighting and loving; taking all we could and returning little, we went our careless and irresponsible ways,…

— Jim Tully

“We were now about to penetrate a country at least two thousand miles in width, on which the foot of civilized man had never…

— John Bakeless

“So he had passed beyond the challenge of the sentries who had stood as guardians of his boyhood and had sought to keep him…

— James Joyce

“For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an outsider, and too alert…

— Colm Tóibín

“He knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he had run…

— Salman Rushdie

“He would stay with his brothers out of loyalty, fight alongside his clansmen out of pride, but if he died, it would be for…

— Marsha Canham

“We know the cause which we are engaged in, and though a passionate fondness for it may make us grieve at every injury which…

— Thomas Paine

“they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive…

— J.R.R. Tolkien