Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

In this war I am completely English.

Your country is bigger than baseball.

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.

A Pole must accept everything Polish, both good and bad,..

The [English] national anthem belongs to the eighteenth century. In it you find us ordering God about to do our political dirty work.

Being English, being born in England, this is our home and we should be supporting our home country.

I'm a proud Brit and a proud Englishman.

England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.

If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

He was bare chested and in good trim. I said that just looking at him I knew there would always be an England

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.

When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.

Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!

The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.

The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced for it, can never refuse to come forward when he finds that she is engaged in dangers which he has the means of warding off.

I'm proud of our country that we elected Barack Obama. I mean, it says something about us nationally. You know, it's kind of like crowning your checker when you get to the end of your checker board. Here's another thing that says America's special: Barack Obama, president of the United States.

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.