Be just, and fear not;

Let all the ends thou aim’st at, be thy country’s,
Thy God’s, and Truth’s. 

          
                          —­Shakespeare.

Such is the patriot’s boast, where’er we roam,
His first, best country ever is at home. 
—­Goldsmith.

I love my country’s good, with a respect more tender, more holy and profound, than my own life.—­Shakespeare.

Hail, Columbia! happy land! 
Hail, ye heroes! heaven born band! 
Who fought and bled in freedom’s cause,
Who fought and bled in freedom’s cause,
And when the storm of war was gone,
Enjoyed the peace your valor won. 
Let Independence be our boast,
Ever mindful what it cost;
Ever grateful for the prize,
Let its altar reach the skies! 
—­Joseph Hopkinson.

Strike—­for your altars and your fires;
Strike—­for the green graves of your sires;
God, and your native land! 
—­Fitz-Greene Halleck.

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One nation evermore! 
—­Holmes.

If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.—­John A. DIX.

The noblest motive is the public good.—­Virgil.

The union of lakes, the union of lands,
The union of States none can sever,
The union of hearts, the union of hands,
And the flag of our Union forever! 
—­George P. Morris.

I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.  —­Daniel Webster.

Our country—­whether bounded by the St. John’s and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurement more or less—­still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, to be defended by all our hands.—­Robert C. Winthrop.

Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith triumphant o’er our fears,
Are all with thee,—­are all with thee! 

          
                          —­Longfellow.

I am not accustomed to the language of eulogy; I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets, since the creation of the world, in praise of woman, was applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.—­Abraham Lincoln.

How dear is fatherland to all noble hearts!—­Voltaire.

Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.  And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever.—­Daniel Webster.