History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it. – Walter Bagehot
An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind. – Walter Bagehot
Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. – Walter Bagehot
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. – Walter Bagehot
The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe… the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy