Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!

Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land?

In the United States there is a unique blend of patriotism indoctrination from the pulpit which blends establishment controls into the religious ideology. This way, to question the establishment is to question God, therefore one’s patriotism and salvation is contingent on their submission to the state.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

so wondrous wild, the whole might seem
the scenery of a fairy dream

Trade has all the fascination of gambling without its moral guilt.