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“It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood.”

Play Age Childhood Spring Claims Winter Privilege Hopeless Unjust Endeavour

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“People can pass thirty nights in dancing and no one complains about it, but if they watch through a single Christmas night they cough and claim their stomach is upset the next morning. Does anyone fail to see that the world is an unjust judge, gracious and well disposed to its own children but harsh and rigorous towards the children of God?”

People Ifs World Wells Children Doe Night Next Watches Morning Failing Judging Claims Catholic Dancing Complaining Upset Thirty Stomach Harsh Unjust Gracious Child Of God

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.”

Fighting Force Nations Cases Economic Claims Handle Settling Unjust

Author:Rufus Jones

“[Socialists claim] that we reject fraternity, solidarity, organization, and association; and they brand us with the name of individualists. We can assure them that what we repudiate is not natural organization, but forced organization. It is not free association, but the forms of association that they would impose upon us. It is not spontaneous fraternity, but legal fraternity. It is not providential solidarity, but artificial solidarity, which is only an unjust displacement of responsibility. Socialism . . . confounds Government and society.”

Government Form Names Natural Responsibility Organization Claims Socialism Brands Rejects Association Artificial Solidarity Spontaneous Unjust Fraternity Displacement Government And Society

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the resisters are acting in the name of justice. And the justice of the cause does not depend on, and is not enhanced by, the virtue of those who make the assertion. It depends first and last on the truth of a description of a state of affairs that is, truly, unjust and unnecessary.”

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.”

Mean War Nations Peace Sin Support Claims Vices Patriotism Frank Unjust Assessment Eagerness Unqualified Unwavering Penitence

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn