"I am a foe to tyrants, and..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.
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More on Patriotism
“The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.”
“For men were born to pray and save:Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,It's with O'Leary in the grave.”
“Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting the enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of the other without any justification. Still another evil is that such a passionate attachment gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country.”
More on Justice
“The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.”
“The caterpillars of the commonwealth,Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.”
“Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.”