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Quote from C. S. Lewis,


"A man may have to die for our country:
but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country.
He who surrenders himself without reservation
to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class
is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things,
most emphatically belongs to God: himself."


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C. S. Lewis (more quotes by C. S. Lewis or books by/about C. S. Lewis)


(1898-1963), British novelist

Categories:

Freedom, Government, Honor, Integrity, Liberty, Love, Patriotism, Power, Reason, Republic, Responsibility, Socialism, Society, Sovereignty, Spirituality, Tyranny, Wisdom, God, Death

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