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My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it.
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
Adele, Musician (1988) |
Henry Cavill, Actor (1983) |
Geoffrey Fisher, Clergyman (1887) |
Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman (1909) |
Vincent Kartheiser, Actor (1979) |
Soren Kierkegaard, Philosopher (1813) |
James Branch Cabell, Novelist (1958) |
Ludwig Erhard, Politician (1977) |
Murray Kempton, Journalist (1997) |
Henri Laurens, Sculptor (1954) |
Arthur Laurents, Playwright (2011) |