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To deride patriotism marks impoverished blood, but to extol it as an ideal or an impulse above truth and justice, at the cost of the general interests of humanity, is far worse.

John, Viscount Morley (1838-1923) English politician and writer
Notes on Politics and History, ch. 5 (1913)

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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

John, Viscount Morley (1838-1923) English politician and writer
On Compromise, ch. 5 (1874),

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Those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other.

John, Viscount Morley (1838-1923) English politician and writer
Rousseau

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