I did not ask, God knows, to die for my country, but to live in it for a cause large enough to survive all causes...

No use, in days when one ship of state after another went hull-down into the sucking tide, to cling to any loyalty not great enough to fit the day when men shall pledge united loyalty to all other men.
(- Donald Culross Peattie, The Road of a Naturalist, 1948)

Mahatma Ghandi speech