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The Navy speaks in symbols, and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.’
‘Oh, by all means, by all means. The poor fellow. What a – what a pretty kettle of fish.’
man as part of a movement or a crowd is indifferent to me. He is inhuman. And I have nothing to do with nations, or nationalism. The only feelings I have – for what they are – are for men as individuals; my loyalties, such as they may be, are to private persons alone.’
patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.’
I have never yet known a man admit that he was either rich or asleep: perhaps the poor man and the wakeful man have some great moral advantage.
Understand my position: I want no republic – I stand by settled, established institutions, and by authority so long as it is not tyranny.
Authority is its great enemy – the assumption of authority. I know few men over fifty that seem to me entirely human: virtually none who has long exercised authority.
