Battle Of Plattsburgh Quotes & Sayings

Part of the problem with extreme patriotism is that it makes the support of one's country and its policies unconditional. Moderate patriots, on the other hand, see that taking morality seriously requires that our commitment to our country be conditional in two ways. First, the actions or policies of a government must be worthy of support or, at least, must not be serious violations of morality. When nations behave immorally, patriots need not support them. — Stephen Nathanson

Morrell turned his head upward as if to appraise the azure, featureless sky and nodded, apparently approving of God's use of negative space. — Steve Toltz

It's not easy being a green conservative, but if we conservatives want to be true to our principles, we have to move in that direction. It is morally right. It is religiously correct. It is economically prudent. It strengthens national defense. And it makes a better world for our children, and our children's children.
As the most committed indoorsman west of Manhattan, I turned green not because I love to hug trees or bunnies (unless they're baked in mustard sauce). No, I turned green because, as schmaltzy as it sounds, I love to hug my kids. — Rod Dreher

I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press. — Michael Hutchence

President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself. — William J. Clinton

Relius lay alone with his thoughts. What kind of man, he wondered, referred to himself as "safely dead"? — Megan Whalen Turner

My blood in his veins." ~Jace — Cassandra Clare

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence. — Adam Smith

Public 'career feminists' have been more concerned with getting more women into 'boardrooms', when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire. — Laurie Penny

My 'must-have' was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere in which every life may expand. I found it everywhere about me ... — Lucy Larcom

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare. — Yoshida Kenko

Americans love our shoes and us Brits love that we can always pick up a bargain when in the US. — Lisa Snowdon

No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation. — Joe Haldeman