Edward Everett Hale

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• No matter what happens to you, no matter who flatters you or who abuses you, never look at another flag, never let a night pass but you pray God to bless that flag. Remember, boy, that behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the Country Herself, your Country, and that you belong to Her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by Her, boy, as you would stand by your mother, if those devils there had got hold of her to-day.
  • The Man Without a Country (1863)

• He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.
  • The Man Without a Country, Epitaph of Philip Nolan

• To look up and not down,
  To look forward and not back,
  To look out and not in, and
  To lend a hand.
  • Ten Times One is Ten (1870)

• I am only one,
  But still I am one.
  I cannot do everything,
  But still I can do something;
  And because I cannot do everything
  I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
  • Ten Times One is Ten (1870)

• If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
  • As quoted in The Quotable Manager : Inspiration for Business and Life (2006) by Joel J. Weiss, p. 128