“Honor your country by giving all to protect your people and the land...”

“It is your duty,' he said, 'to recover your country not by gold but by the sword. You will be fighting with all you love before your eyes: the temples of the gods, your wives and children, the soil of your native land scarred with the ravages of war, and everything which honor and truth call upon you to defend, or recover, or avenge.”

“Guard, protect and cherish your land, for there is no afterlife for a place that started out as Heaven.”

“A constant flow of thoughts expressed by other people can stop and deaden your own thought and your own initiative…. That is why constant learning softens your brain…. Stopping the creation of your own thoughts to give room for the thoughts from other books reminds me of Shakespeare’s remark about his contemporaries who sold their land in order to see other countries.”

“No one can take your honor from you; to lose it, you must give it away...honor is always sin your own hands.”

“There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.”