Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhy should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?
Ralph Waldo Emerson