
“Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made”
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”
Source: Clockwork Angel
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.
Quoington Star article entitled "Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?", "The Coming Race War in America: A Wake-up Call" (1996)
The Zollverein and British Industry (1903), p. 164
1900s
Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 1, p. 4
Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), pp. 214