Canada's Parliament attacked today

Three leading motives usually incite men to fight, -- the patriotic love of liberty, the enthusiasm of glory, and religious fanaticism.[1]

-         ` Madame de Staël, Germany, 1810

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[1]   Madame de Staël, Germany, tr. Orlando Williams Right, vol. I (Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1871 [British Library Historical Print Edition]), p. 39.  De l'Allemagne was first published in French in 1810.