War is an ugly thing ...

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”


"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."


- John Stuart Mill



It is thanks only to the men and women who serve this nation, better than I, that we can conduct ourselves as we do each day, and I am thankful for them as I watch North Korea, Iran, and threats from Al Qaida in Pakistan.






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