The undertaking of a new action brings new strength., Evenius,
It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country., Homer, The Iliad, Greek epic poet (800 BC 700 BC)
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice., Baruch Spinoza, Dutch Jewish philosopher (1632 1677)
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values., Norman Thomas, US socialist politician (1884 1968)
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truththat the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous., C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man, English essayist juvenile novelist (1898 1963)