And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press.
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Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its law.
The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud.
Inefficient nations were always conquered sooner or later, and the struggle for efficiency was inimical to illusions.
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men – yes, and then to get around them.
