For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do. – George Linnaeus Banks
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. – Iris Murdoch
Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever. – Arthur Henderson