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>I must tell you, Charles, that in my eyes your opinions do carry weight. But I may also let Walter's carry a litle more than you might consider.
I don't mean to belittle the passion of anyone who believes in peace and social justice. I have no problem with a large peace movement in Europe. Would that it had happened a hundred years before, there would be far fewer crosses with American and Canadian names on the fields of France.
Often I would rather the U.S. had the luxury of not having to deal with things that other nations can leave to others. (Right now the 'International Community' is dealing with Darfur )
I am sure that often my father wished he didn't have to support the family while supporting an adolescent so much smarter than he with so many fewer responsibilities.
My heart is in the street with the protesters. Unfortunately, my head is filled with too many things I sometimes wish weren't there.
Orwell felt it :
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
I want my family to be untroubled by these issues. I want the majority of humanity to have the joy of seeing ultimate perfectability of man.
And I want to know the Watchers are on the Wall.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
