George Barrington Quote

True patriots all; for be it understood
We left our country for our country's good.


Prologue written for the Opening of the Play-house at New South Wales, Jan. 16, 1796. Compare: "'T was for the good of my country that I should be abroad", George Farquhar, The Beaux' Stratagem, Act iii, scene 2.


True patriots all; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good.

True patriots all; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good.

True patriots all; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good.

True patriots all; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good.