"Where liberty dwells, there is my country" means that a person's true loyalty and sense of home belong to the principles of freedom and individual rights, rather than to a specific geographic territory or government.
True Patriotism:
Allegiance is given to the values of a society, such as justice and human rights, rather than blind loyalty to a nation-state. A person will consider any place that protects their fundamental liberties as their true "home", regardless of where they were born.
Origin:
It is historically rooted in the Latin motto "Ubi libertas, ibi patria". The English version is most frequently attributed to American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. It is also famously associated with the fiery American Revolutionary orator James Otis.
- From multiple online sources.
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Never liked nor cared much about politics, but I know what is freedom and liberty; understand the impact when they are missing from people's lives; have the utmost respect for those who fought for freedom and liberty; and truly appreciate where I'm living now.
There is also a famous philosophical observation by W. Somerset Maugham in his 1938 book The Summing Up: "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."
Long live freedom and liberty!!!
RIP to those beautiful souls who sacrificed their lives for freedom and liberty, they are gone but not forgotten ... ...
ps. A beautiful and moving cello music from《殇》
