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Edward Everett Hale Quotes:

Ocupation: Author

Life: April 3, 1822 - June 10, 1909

Birthday: April 3

Death: June 10

Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and . . . you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother.

- Edward Everett Hale

source: Edward Everett Hale, Hsuan L. Hsu, Susan Kalter (2010). “Two Texts by Edward Everett Hale: "The Man Without a Country" and Philip Nolan's Friends”, p.32, Rowman & Littlefield

topic: Mother, Country, Boys

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