Ben

“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.”
― Jeff Flake, Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle

“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

“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

“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.”
― Ernest Gordon, To End All Wars: A True Story about the Will to Survive and the Courage to Forgive