“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”
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“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
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“For no one should consider anything his own, except perhaps a lie, since all truth is from Him who said, "I am the truth.”
― The Four Books of St. Augustine on Christian Doctrine
― The Four Books of St. Augustine on Christian Doctrine
“I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.”
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“There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own will."
(Against Fortunatus)”
― The Manichean Debate: The Works of Saint Augustine
(Against Fortunatus)”
― The Manichean Debate: The Works of Saint Augustine
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