#gh

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#agencies #authorities #control #fight #forces

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#circumstances #civilians #illegal #indiscriminate #ought

Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#allies #appeal #bin #gone #great

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#fight #fighters #old #resistance #still

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#earth #primarily #put #see #through

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#each #enough #like #love #must

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#before #children #enough #marriage #mature

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point. ↗

— Abdoulaye Wade

#democracy #edifice #freedom #like #point

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#bear #brought #current #easy #glide

Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#born #conduct #correct #doctrine #equal