history of this quote “Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.” by George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw
“If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?” Abraham Lincoln
