Rhonda Crouch

“And it's safe to assume that those in power would think longer and harder about launching a war if they envisioned their own sons and daughters in harm's way.”
― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“There are a whole lot of religious people in America, including the majority of Democrats. When we abandon the field of religious discourse—when we ignore the debate about what it means to be a good Christian or Muslim or Jew; when we discuss religion only in the negative sense of where or how it should not be practiced, rather than in the positive sense of what it tells us about our obligations toward one another; when we shy away from religious venues and religious broadcasts because we assume that we will be unwelcome—others will fill the vacuum. And those who do are likely to be those with the most insular views of faith, or who cynically use religion to justify partisan ends.”
― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“What I could not support was "a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics".”
― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
― Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy