“ Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. Elie Wiesel Professor
“ If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. Thomas Jefferson 3rd U.S. President
“ One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies. Lord Chesterfield British Statesman
“ Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there’s a housing bubble and you’ll have a reasonable discussion. Tell an Australian and you’ll have World War III. Been there, done that! Jeremy Grantham Investor
“ Except when you're marching to war, it's not a very optimistic thought, is it? In other words, it's the opposite of optimistic when you're thinking you're going to war. George W. Bush 43rd U.S. President
“ One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. Agatha Christie Novelist
“ A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it. Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer