What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo TolstoyPatriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.
Leo Tolstoy