Terence

“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

“Many around the world took notice, George Shultz later reflected, with just small exaggeration, that firing the PATCO strikers 'was the most important foreign policy decision Ronald Reagan ever made.”
― George Shultz

“To be sure, law is not the source of rightness, but it is forever the course of rightness.”
― Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: A Study of Spiritual Reality in Christian Thought

“And no matter how seemingly healthy and spiritually evolved we are, there is still a part of us, however small, that does not want us to exert ourselves, that clings to the old and familiar, fearful of any change or effort, desiring comfort at any cost and absence of pain at any price, even if the penalty be ineffectiveness, stagnation or regression.”
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth