Attending there let us absorb the cultures of nations And dissolve into our judgement all their codes.... Then, being clogged, with a natural hesitation (People are continually asking one the way out), Let us stand here and admit that we have no road.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes t...he fate of nations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I... Stand in the plague of custom and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother? Why bastard? Wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With base? With baseness? Bastardy? Base, base? Who in the lusty stealth of nature take More composition and fierce quality Than doth within a dull, stale, tired bed Go to th' creating a whole tribe of fops Got 'tween asleep and wake?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manlin...ess, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the the movements of the world gave a chance for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity..., the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We gave 'em wings to fly and they rained death on us. We gave 'em a voice to be heard around the world and they preach hatred to p...oison the minds of nations. Even the medicine we gave them to ease their pain is turned into a vice to enslave half mankind for the profit of a few. Ah, Janet, dear, don't you see? Every gift that science has given them has been twisted into a thing of hate and greed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity-...-the law of nature and of nations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »