A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusi…

C. S. Lewis
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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. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2009). Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life, p.11, Harper Collins
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