Status Updates From The Peloponnesian War

Alcibiades:
“Love of country is what I do not feel when I am wronged, but what I felt when secure in my rights as a citizen. I do not consider that I am now attacking a country that is still mine; I am rather trying to recover one that is mine no longer; and the true lover of his country is not he who consents to lose it unjustly…but he who longs for it so much that he will go to all lengths to recover it.”

“We should remember that we are only now enjoying some respite from a great pestilence and from war, to the no small benefit of our estates and persons, and that it is right to employ these at home on our own behalf, instead of using them on behalf of these exiles whose interest is to lie as well as they can, who do nothing but talk themselves and leave the danger to others,