“The security of our world is found in the advancing rights of mankind.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2004, Speech to United Nations General Assembly (September 2004)
“Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.”
Bk. I, Ch. 9
Elective Affinities (1809)
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Context: Therefore, we should devote ourselves as a preparative to preparedness, alike in peace and war, to secure the three elemental things: one, a common language, the English language; two, the increase in our social loyalty citizenship absolutely undivided, a citizenship which acknowledges no flag except the flag of the United States and which emphatically repudiates all duality of intention or national loyalty; and third, an intelligent and resolute effort for the removal of industrial and social unrest, an effort which shall aim equally at securing every man his rights and to make every man understand that unless he in good faith performs his duties he is not entitled to any rights at all.
“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Source: The Great Gatsby
Aurelius Augustinus On the Trinity
(Cambridge: 2002), Book 9, Chapter 2, Section 2, p. 26
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