Herman Lee Donovan quotes

“The objectives of education and industry are identical. Both are interested in good citizenship, in serving society, in a better life-and both firmly believe in freedom.”
-- Herman Lee Donovan

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“Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.”

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”

“A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.”

“I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true”

“The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.”

“I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.”

“I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.”

“True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.”

Source : Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.61, Sasquatch Books

“Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power.”

“Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.”