The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.
Bill VaughanIn the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
Bill VaughanIn the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.
Bill VaughanI believe that God will help us to forget things, the memory of which would do us harm, or rather that He will enable us to remember only so much of them as will be for our good, and we, ourselves, not emotionally overwhelmed. The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember.
Bill Vaughan