Pro Patria (1917) is a pamphlet of poems written by Florence Earle Coates privately printed in support of American involvement during World War I.

"The American People to the Allies" references President Wilson's "too proud to fight" speech delivered on May 10, 1915 to 4,000 newly naturalized citizens in Convention Hall, Philadelphia, where he states, "there is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight ... as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right."

Mrs. Coates answers: If they tell you that we think, When the robber comes by night And we see 'neath murderous Might Innocence unfriended sink, We should be "too proud to fight"— Don't believe it!

Isaac Siegel in an "Extension of Remarks" in the Appendix to the Congressional Record (Second Session of the 64th Congress of the United States, Vol.

Elizabeth Clendenning Ring writes of Mrs. Coates' war poetry: "in the present world crisis, of special interest are her views on war, voiced in the poems scattered throughout her work, particularly those in the still more recent 'Pro Patria,' that burn with a passionate fervor of patriotism, as stirring as the roll of drums at dawn.