What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.
Tom Clancy
Archives For November 30, 1999
인생에서 단순하고 소박한 아름다움을 하나씩 찾아 모으며 나날을 보내는 것 외에 그 어느 것도 바라지 않은 사람이야말로 더없이 행복한 사람이다. (That man is happiest who lives from day to day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of a life.)
Korean Proverb, 한국속담
생각에 있어서 그러하듯, 행동에서 위대하라. (Be great in act, as you have been in thought.)
Korean Proverb, 한국속담
Until the millennium arrives and countries cease trying to enslave others, it will be necessary to accept one’s responsibilities and be willing to make sacrifices for one’s country – as my comrades did. As the troops used to say, “If the country is good enough to live in, it’s good enough to fight for.” With privilege goes responsibility.
Eugene B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.
Tom Clancy, Red Rabbit
We can’t make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. – Army saying
Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers
The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you’re right. As one grows old, it is easier still.
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity
Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one’s own governing philosophy.
Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October
Man has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn’t think of doctrines as primarily “true” or “false,” but as “academic” or “practical,” “outworn” or “contemporary,” “conventional” or “ruthless.” Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don’t waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageous—that it is the philosophy of the future. That’s the sort of thing he cares about.
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
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