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

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

Lord Byron
Love, Country, Patriotic

It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose virtues have been those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny and it has been bitter whatever it may be in future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe.

Lord Byron
Country, Destiny, Interesting
From the Letters of Lord Byron, January 2, 1817.

I loved my country, and I hated him.

Lord Byron
Country, Hated
Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.282, Routledge

Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!

Lord Byron
Country, Rome, Cities
'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 78

I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.

Lord Byron
Country, Sight, Land
LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.43

Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!

Lord Byron
Country, Sight, Land
Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd-- To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.

Lord Byron
Country, Art, Son
Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

Lord Byron
Country, Hunting, Literature
'The Age of Bronze' (1823) st. 14

Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!

Lord Byron
Good Night, Country, Farewell
Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

Lord Byron
Country, Selfish, World
Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.41, Gerald Duckworth & Co

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolish'd the right arm Of his own country.

Lord Byron
Country, Laughing, Spain
"Don Juan".