Thoughts for a Veteran’s Day (Armistice Day in some European nations)

by Jack Grant

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life is a long lesson in humility.
-James M. Barrie

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Unfortunately, I’m all too familiar with the second.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.    -Thomas Jefferson

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
   -Theodore Roosevelt

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
   -Epictetus

I have too much compassion to be a conservative and too much sense to be a liberal.
   -Stephen Millich

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.
   -James Madison
    4th US president (1751 - 1836)

...being tough doesn’t require being stupid. It’s totally optional.
   -Scott Adams
   cartoonist and satirist

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
   -H. H. Williams

Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.
   -Peter da Silva

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There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know. So why fret about it?

—Lazarus Long

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