Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.
Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.
The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."
Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. Iâ€™d found my happiness.
Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.
They (ACS) lie like scoundrels.
Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions but self-control got the better of me.

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