“… in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.”

2010s, Interview with Tom Mackaman (2013)

Part IV, Ch. 2
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926)

1910s, The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)

"C.P. Cavafy", p. 341
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
Context: In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst human vice, collective egotism.
The virtue of patriotism has been extolled most loudly and publicly by nations that are in the process of conquering others, by the Roman, for example, in the first century B. C., the French in the 1790s, the English in the nineteenth century, and the Germans in the first half of the twentieth. To such people, love of one's country involves denying the right of others, of the Gauls, the Italians, the Indians, the Poles, to love theirs.

Last Laugh ‘05 (2005)

Address at a White House dinner honoring Nobel Prize winners (29 April 1962), quoted in The White House Diary, at the JFK Library http://www.jfklibrary.org/white%20house%20diary/1962/April/29 <br class="br">1962

Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 15