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"But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may have in a foreign country, if it be far from father or mother, he does not care about it."
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"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
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"Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith."
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"The real propaganda is what-if we are genuinely a living member of a nation-we tell ourselves because we have hope, hope being a symbol of a nation's instinct of self-preservation. To remain blind to the unjustness of the cause of the individual "Germany," to recognise at every moment the justness of the cause of the individual "France," the surest way was not for a German to be without judgement, or for a Frenchman to possess it, it was, both for the one and for the other, to be possessed of patriotism."
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"How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?"
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"What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends."
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"The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The Fruit Hunters."
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"I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world."
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"The English nation is never so great as in adversity."
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"We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world."
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"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
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"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."
Heart
"An irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself."
Rest
"No finer, greater gift in the world than that: When man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one. Despair to their enemies, a joy to all their friends. Their own best claim to glory."
Family
"The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old age."
Relationship
"Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off-all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms That's how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears."
Emotion
"The hearts of great men can be changed."
Transformation
"Labor conquers all things."
Work
"Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man."
Humanity
"And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved."
Journey
"And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!"
Tragedy
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