My Country Right Or Wrong

Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!
~ Stephen Decatur

And say not thou “My country right or wrong”
Nor shed thy blood for an unhallowed cause.
~ John Quincy Adams, in Congress, Slavery and an Unjust War

“My country right or wrong” is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.”
~ G.K. Chesterton, in The Defendant

Aristotle - Select Quotes

But he who is unable to live in society, or who has not need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
~ In Politics, bk. I, ch. 2, 1253a

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
~ In Politics

One who throws a stone has power over it until he has thrown it, but not afterwards.

Every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

Anybody can become angry — that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

In Vitro Fertilization - A Christian Perspective

It is estimated that infertility effects between 8 to 16 percent of couples of childbearing age. Infertility can be quite painful for couples who, like Hannah (1 Samuel 1), desire a child. As Christians we are called to be of the same mind toward one another, weeping with those who weep (Romans 12), so how are we to counsel those who long for the gift of offspring and are considering in vitro fertilization? Read more