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If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that you love a country is by seeing everything that it's done wrong, all of its mistakes, and still thinking that it's beautiful and that it's worthy.

I love my country so much.

I love my country more than anything else.

In order to live in a different country, you have to love something there. You have to love something there. You have to love either the spirit of the laws or the economic opportunities, or the - well, history of the country, the language perhaps, literature.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.