Ron Cleghorn

“Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it.”
― Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

“I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr, Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic

“Those then, who resist a confirmation of public order, are the true Artificers of monarchy—not that this is the intention of the generality of them. Yet it would not be difficult to lay the finger upon some of their party who may justly be suspected. When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity—to join in the cry of danger to liberty—to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion—to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day—It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may “ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.”
― Alexander Hamilton

“When people are actively engaged in a cause their lives have more purpose... with a resulting improvement in mental health,”
― Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging