“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”

“Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.”

“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.”

“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.”

“Patriotism is the wholesome, constructive love of one’s land and people. Nationalism is the unhealthy love of one’s government, accompanied by the aggressive desire to put down others – which becomes in deracinated modern men a substitute for religious faith. Patriotism is an appropriate, indeed necessary, sentiment for people who wish to preserve their freedom; nationalism is not.”