The United States has practiced nuclear blackmail for many decades.

Go, forget me--why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me--and to-morrow Brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile--though I shall not be near thee; Sing--though I shall never hear thee.

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute "shall"? -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.

it would not be fun when life is so easy.

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs one step at a time.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Enough ants can eat an elephant.

But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

When our old Pleasures die, Some new One still is nigh; Oh! fair Variety!

Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752 The Christian should be a conscience in his group. His presence must never be used to provide a Christian justification for evil. To stand as a co-belligerent and not an ally will be to rally the middle ground for a genuine Third Way without mediocre compromise. The Third Way will not be easy. It will be lonely. Sometimes the Christian must have the courage to stand with the establishment, speaking boldly to the radicals and pointing out the destructive and counter-productive nature of their violence. At other times, he will stand as a co-belligerent with the radicals in their outrage and just demands for redress. The Christian is a co-belligerent with either or both when either or both are right, but... fearless in his opposition to either or both when they are wrong.

She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.