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“I have always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.”
― A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18
― A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18
“We have gone the way of many a democratic society that has lost its freedom by persuading itself that if “the people” rule, all is well.”
― Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle
― Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle
“That’s what our system of government, defined by the separation of powers, is all about. It shouldn’t matter whether the president belongs to my party or to another one.”
― Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle
― Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle
“MacDonald hinted at one of his objectives in using the genre of the fairy tale. “The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is—not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself.”
― A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18
― A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18
“It was a voice other than Reason that replied, ‘You could live. You could be. You could do. There’s a purpose you have to fulfil. You’d become more conscious of it every day you keep on living. There’s a task for you; a responsibility that is yours and only yours.’ ‘Good enough,’ I said. ‘I’ll get on with it.”
― To End All Wars: A True Story about the Will to Survive and the Courage to Forgive
― To End All Wars: A True Story about the Will to Survive and the Courage to Forgive
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