"What a glorious morning for America." -- Samuel Adams, said to John Hancock following a battleThus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave BarryWhen nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William BlakeAs always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano DiariesFreedom is a contagious blessing. -- Stephen CovingtonI think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball documentary, 1994America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. -- Bobcat GoldthwaitPatriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel JohnsonI have not yet begun to fight -- John Paul JonesEvery St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane LeslieFrom the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthurI shall return. -- General Douglas MacArthurOld soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthurWar is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo MachiavelliThe worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart MillThe Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'RourkeVery little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'RourkeThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George PattonA man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George SantayanaPatriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard ShawIf the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred SheedAmerica is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold ToynbeeNow is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. -- Typewriting exercisePatriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar WildePerhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde