d the man who prays without working
only has one eye too. The man who neither works nor prays has no eyes,
and walks in darkness.

Neither be boastful of life nor fearful of death. Death is conditioned
by life, and life by death.

You can kill me, but my son will live; you can kill my son, but my soul
will live.

The Kingdom of God is coming as quietly as the moonlight, and it will
come fully when men learn not to live in convulsions and not to die in
convulsions.

There are only two nations upon the earth: that which weeps and that
which laughs.

Now I would like to indicate slightly what The English Political
Interests in Serbia are. Little as she may seem, democratic Serbia is
still the greatest moral factor in the big Slav world. She is admired by
other subjugated Slavs because she succeeded without anybody's help in
freeing herself. She is envied by all other Slavs, from near and from
far, as well as from other neighbouring nations, because of her nearly
perfect democracy. Serbia is the only democratic state among the four
independent Slav states (Russia, Montenegro, Bulgaria). And just in this
terrible war it became clear to all the world that Serbia was the only
democratic state in the Near East. Turkey is governed by an oligarchy,
Bulgaria by a German despot, Greece by a wilful king whose patriotism is
overshadowed by his nepotism, Roumania is ruled more by the wish of the
landlords (boyars) and court than by the wish of the people. I will say
nothing about the very profanation of democracy in the dark realm of the
Hapsburgs.

Serbia not only means a democratic state, but a democratic nation; that
is to say, that not only are the Serbian institutions (including the
church also) democratic, but the spirit of the whole of the nation is
democratic. After all, this democratic spirit of Serbia must be
victorious in the Balkans as well as in the Slav world.

You know that England's glory has always been to stand as the champion
of democracy. England's best interests in the Near East now more than
ever imperatively require her to support democratic Serbia against her
anti-democratic enemies. How different Serbia is from all her
neighbours was clearly proved just by this war. She is alone in the Near
East fighting on the side of the democratic England and France against
Prussian militarism and autocracy. That does not happen accidentally,
but because of the Serbian democratic spirit. This spirit is very
attrac