The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

We are one people and will act as one.
[Ger., Wir sind ein Volk, und einig wollen wir handeln.]

We are one people and will act as one.
[Ger., Wir sind ein Volk, und einig wollen wir handeln.]

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, read more

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Then none was for a party;
Than all were for the state;
Then the great man helped read more

Then none was for a party;
Than all were for the state;
Then the great man helped the poor,
And the poor man loved the great:
Then lands were fairly portioned;
Then spoils were fairly sold:
The Romans were like brothers
In the brave days of old.

Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking

Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.
- George Colman ("The Younger"),

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.
- George Colman ("The Younger"),

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will
fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in read more

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will
fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible
struggle.