“Civilized nations, however, do not use their armies and fleets to open one another's ports to trade. What they use their armies and fleets for, is, when they quarrel, to close one another's ports. ... What protection teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.”
― Protection or Free Trade
― Protection or Free Trade
“This world is too small for less than brotherhood, too dangerous for less than truth.”
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“As they carried on along and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
“We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out of the garden is our own ignorance and folly.”
― essai sur le décor naturel américain
― essai sur le décor naturel américain
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