The oppression of any people for opinions sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. – Hosea Ballou
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. – Hosea Ballou
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. – Hosea Ballou
Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century – freedom against Communism – so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. – John Bolton