No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.
Time is running out fast. I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days -- before there is a material risk of a fundamentally unnecessary default by a country like Spain or Italy which would be a financial catastrophe dragging the European banking system and North America with it. So they have to act now.
I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.
Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no committals; but I do think I will not.
Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.
I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.