Terence

“And if we take it seriously, we are going to find that this simple notion of a loving God does not make for an easy philosophy.”
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“People do not make wars; governments do. And no mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology. A people free to choose will always choose peace. Americans seek always to make friends of old antagonists. After a colonial revolution with Britain, we have cemented for all ages the ties of kinship between our nations... We fought two world wars in my lifetime against Germany and one with Japan, but now the Federal Republic of Germany and Japan are two of our closest allies and friends.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Fortunately, Marhsall found an eager audience in fellow intellectual Ikle, who recognized at once that ONA's analysis and prescriptions for the Cold War reinforced Reagan's intuitions. Together Ikle and Marshall pressed the military services to build budget plans around 'exploiting opportunities to impose disproportionate costs on the USSE over the long term.' This was Marshall's concept of 'Competitive strategies', which 'depended on identifying areas of comparative US advantage and using them to exploit areas of comparative Soviet weakness or disadvantage.”
― William Inboden, The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan in the White House and the World

“To those who would crush religious freedom, our message is plain: You may jail your believers. You may close their churches, confiscate their Bibles, and harass their rabbis and priests, but you will never destroy the love of God and freedom that burns in their hearts. They will triumph over you...

[The Soviets have] the most awesome military machine in history, but it is no match for that one single man, hero, strong yet tender, Prince of Peace... Jesus.”
― Ronald Reagan