I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.
A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.
As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.
We have a problem with drugs? Let's declare war on drugs! We have a problem with crime? Let's declare war on crime! We have a problem with violence? Let's declare war on violence! The deeply ingrained American attitude that we can solve any problem wenough force creates, feeds, & rewards the epidemic of violence we are currently experiencing.
You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?
Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.
Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition. . . Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.
Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.
When the Second World War finished, I was 23, and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. So seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much.
I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.
An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.
I'm not saying that George W. Bush did everything right. But even if you take a skeptical view of his Iraq war, [Barack] Obama made the more serious error of withdrawing his troops from Iraq early.
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other, I've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity, sickness and health. I've seen the depth of suffering and the peaks of triumph and I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.
President Bush had an opportunity tonight to say, 'Look. . . things aren't going very well in Iraq and we did make some miscalculations and misjudgments there,' but he is so stubbornly arrogant - he just sticks with that same formula that he has in talking about the war on Iraq that just defies the reality that we all see on the ground.
Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.
You've seen how actors make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.
Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.
The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.
