"Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do."

Jordan, June | Autonomy | 1 bookmarks

"Fighting terrorism is like being a goalkeeper. You can make a hundred brilliant saves but the only shot that people remember is the one that gets past you."

Wilkinson, Paul | Terrorism | 1 bookmarks

"Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie. In our history, the state has failed to respond to the weak. You could be white, male, Presbyterian and heterosexual besides, but if you get fired or if you get sick tomorrow, you might as well be Black, for all the state will want to hear from you."

Jordan, June | Trouble | 1 bookmarks

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."

Patton, George S. | Soldier | 2 bookmarks

"So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius | Soldier | 2 bookmarks

"Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred | Soldier | 1 bookmarks

"The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. | Terrorism | 1 bookmarks

"The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies."

Waite, Terry | Terrorism | 1 bookmarks

"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."

Macarthur, Douglas | Soldier | 1 bookmarks

"The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson | Death and Dying | 1 bookmarks