#ld

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#hell #i #paradise #prefer #right

I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war. ↗

— Douglass North

#become #beliefs #communist #else #everybody

I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research. ↗

— Douglass North

#i #impression #left #life #my life

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I. ↗

— Douglass North

#before #born #both #brother #brother and sister

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist. ↗

— Douglass North

#become #continuous #convinced #course #did

If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock. ↗

— Dudley North

#dead #eating #estate #growing #him

This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians. ↗

— Gary North

#christians #god #heirs #lawful #non-christians

Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law. ↗

— Gary North

#because #blessings #cannot #come #denied

Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily. ↗

— Gary North

#apparent #bribe #cheek #christian #fact

In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children. ↗

— Oliver North

#better #book #changed #children #dozen