IV, 3, 23.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IV
Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.
2000s, 2003, Mission Accomplished (May 2003)
Writing for the Court, New Jersey v. New York, et al., 283 U.S. 336, 342 (1931).
1930s
Speech to the American Legion convention, New York City (27 August 1952); as quoted in "Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson Defines the Nature of Patriotism" in Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History (2004) by William Safire, p. 81 - 82
Context: It was always accounted a virtue in a man to love his country. With us it is now something more than a virtue. It is a necessity. When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
Men who have offered their lives for their country know that patriotism is not the fear of something; it is the love of something.
“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
As quoted in Ramez Naam (2013), "The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet", ISBN 978-1611682557 p. 235
“I am more afraid of our own blunders than of the enemy's devices.”
Book I, Chapter V
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I
"The Tragedy of the Moon," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (July 1972)
General sources
“Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.”
Helen (412 BC), as translated by Richmond Lattimore
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)
