“Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel
Source: Clockwork Angel
As quoted in The Military Quotation Book by James Charlton, p. 37.
“Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel
Source: Clockwork Angel
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2009, Nobel Prize acceptance speech (December 2009)
Context: There has long been a tension between those who describe themselves as realists or idealists — a tension that suggests a stark choice between the narrow pursuit of interests or an endless campaign to impose our values around the world.
I reject these choices. I believe that peace is unstable where citizens are denied the right to speak freely or worship as they please; choose their own leaders or assemble without fear. Pent-up grievances fester, and the suppression of tribal and religious identity can lead to violence. We also know that the opposite is true. Only when Europe became free did it finally find peace. America has never fought a war against a democracy, and our closest friends are governments that protect the rights of their citizens. No matter how callously defined, neither America's interests — nor the world's — are served by the denial of human aspirations.
Carl Rowan (1925–2000) American journalist
Quoington Star article entitled "Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?", "The Coming Race War in America: A Wake-up Call" (1996)
“C++ protects against accident, not against fraud.”
Bjarne Stroustrup book The C++ Programming Language
The C++ Programming Language
Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937) British statesman; prime minister of the United Kingdom
The Zollverein and British Industry (1903), p. 164
1900s
Michael Parenti (1933) American academic
Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 1, p. 4
David Dixon Porter (1813–1891) United States Navy admiral
Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), pp. 214