Patience, the second bravery of man, is, perhaps, greater than the first.—Antonio de Solis.
Patience—the truest fortitude.—Milton.
Patriotism.—In peace patriotism really consists only in this—that every one sweeps before his own door, minds his own business, also learns his own lesson, that it may be well with him in his own house.—Goethe.
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.—Decatur.
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.
There can be no affinity nearer than our country.—Plato.
Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning it.—Gladstone.
Peace.—They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.—Bible.
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace.—Shakespeare.