The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
In America, the top 1 percent led the country into war and economic devastation, leaving the less fortunate to fight for one and pay for both.
The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.
It's always disappointing to come across phony do-gooders. And it's easy to scoff at celebrities working in war zones.
War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.
What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.
I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.
During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.
And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.
I've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and about myself.
What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.
I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord
Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.
The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.
God dances with the outcast.
No exchange rate for the confidence of youth.
A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.
I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.
No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.
The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.
