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Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.

Richard Aldington (1892-1962) English writer and poet [b. Edward Godfree Aldington]
The Colonel’s Daughter, 1.6 (1931)

The test of intelligence [is] not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do. Similarly, any situation, any activity, that puts before us real problems, that we have to solve for ourselves, problems for which there are no answers in any book, sharpens our intelligence.

John Holt (1923-1985) American author and educator
How Children Learn, “Art, Math, and Other Things” (1967)

What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go is right? Politics in a democracy, is at the end, an educational process.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917-2007) Historian, author, social critic
“A Clinton Card, So Far,” New York Times (11 Apr 1993)

Whereas, Almighty God hath created the mind free; That all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and therefore are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being Lord, both of body and mind yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do ….

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) US President (1801-09)
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786)

Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.

Bion of Borysthenes (c. 325-c. 250 BC) Greek philosopher, cynic, wit
In Stobaeus, Anthology, Book 3, 10.37 (c. 5th C)
See Bible, 1 Timothy 6:10