Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.
Lee H. HamiltonRead
One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.
Interpretation
The disparity in global wealth affects not only moral considerations but also national security.
This quote highlights the alarming reality that a significant portion of the world's population lives in extreme poverty, which poses ethical concerns and may also impact national security. It suggests that the plight of those living on less than two dollars a day should not only provoke our moral outrage but should also be a critical factor in shaping how nations approach security and policy-making.
In practice
During a speech at a charity gala discussing global poverty.
Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.
Godβs sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the use of praying? - it's only a sin! It is strange, too, that I am not sleepy: in great, too great sorrow, after the first outbursts one is always sleepy. Men condemned to death, they say, sleep very soundly on the last night. And so it must be, it si the law of nature, otherwise their strength would not hold out... I lay down on the sofa but I did not sleep...
These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.
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