Various useful quotations
The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy"
George Washington, President & General
'to save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he seeyou now, ask why?'
W.H.Auden
'To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public'
Roosveldt
'We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount - ours is a wrold of nuclear giants and ethical infants; we know more about war than we do about peace, more about killing than we know about living
anon
And flesh is flesh was flame before; and infinite hungers leap no more, in the chance savaging of your dreams, and love has turned to kindliness
I against my brother. I and my brother against my cousin. I and my brother and my cousin against the neighbours cousin. All of us against the foreigner
Bedouin saying
Mundus Senescuit - the world grows old
"all history was a palimpset, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary" (George Orwell, 1984).