The aggressive unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.
That a man be willing when others are so too as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men as he would allow other men against himself.
But my dear sirs when peace does come you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or ensure it of victory in time of war.
We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.
If we are to teach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war we shall have to begin with the children.
The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans who are not really Americans.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
As I pass it I feel as if I saw a dear old mother sweet in her weakness trembling at the approach of her dissolution but not appealing to me against the inevitable rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience and pointing to a hopeful future.
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience the other tells you if you don't resent them you are not fit to live.
Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008 we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune we called it a 'moral hazard ' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.
Thus anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts and go against the conventions and rules of society and will end up a criminal.
I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature there is no appeal.
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.
Mother Nature comes up against reality and the reality is that the system doesn't work.
There are no lines in nature only areas of colour one against another.
A book is a fragile creature it suffers the wear of time it fears rodents the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite hard and resistant.
There will be I think an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.