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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo
.. were war criminals
interviews recorded in the movie The Fog
of read more
All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo
.. were war criminals
interviews recorded in the movie The Fog
of War..
(the firebombing of Tokyo occurred before the atom bombs..
100,000 civilians died in one night from American bombs..
500,000 altogether over several days say some).
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
Every man has two countries, his own and France.
Every man has two countries, his own and France.
I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the read more
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It read more
"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.".
