A search of Deja News revealed that this same question had recently been asked in the Usenet newsgroup uk.rec.competitions . One person replied to say that the answer was Neil Kinnock. I seem to remember him using those words at a Labour Party conference that had wide television coverage some time back in the 1980s. On Thu, 04 May 2000 09:37:12 +0100 "Sue.Morris" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Can anyone identify the following quotation "I would die for my country > but I could never let my country die for me"? I have tried all the usual > sources. > S. Morris ---------- Roy Davies http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/ University Library University of Exeter Stocker Road Exeter EX4 4PT UK %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%