Ben

“Oh yes, I am of the opinion, too, that war is a very bad thing. I do not want war. My tribe does not want war. But,’ he added, unconsciously echoing the shibboleth common to all mankind, ‘how can we live at peace with our neighbours when they want war and are always making war?”
― Ernest Gordon, To End All Wars: A True Story about the Will to Survive and the Courage to Forgive

“I have always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.”
― Joseph Loconte, 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.”
― Jeff Flake, Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle

“If they won’t write the kind of books we want to read,” Lewis told his friend, “we shall have to write them ourselves.”110”
― Joseph Loconte, 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