C. S. Lewis Quote

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.


Transposition, and other addresses (ed. 1949)


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...

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...

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...

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...