Great Throughts Treasury

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Thomas Jefferson

Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family.

Liberty | Little | Security | Society | Will | Society |

Thomas Jefferson

The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.

Security |

Thomas Jefferson

The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced into the administration of them in every function to which they are sufficient; they will err sometimes and accidentally, but never designedly, and with a systematic and persevering purpose of overthrowing the free principles of the government.

Order | Safe | Security |

Thomas Jefferson

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

Blessings | Freedom | Ignorance | Men | Reason | Right | Rights | Security | Superstition | Will |

Thomas Jefferson

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

Freedom | Man | Security |

Thomas Jefferson

Men have differed in opinion, and been divided into parties by these opinions, from the first origin of societies, and in all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak.

Blessings | Grace | Ignorance | Light | Mankind | Men | Rights | Science | Security | Superstition | Will |

Thomas Jefferson

The firmness with which the people have withstood the late abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment between them.

Character | Death | Good | Law | Mercy | Murder | Object | Power | Public | Security | Time | Treason | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Murder |

Thomas Jefferson

Our people shall be free.

Security |

Thomas Mann, fully Paul Thomas Mann

Never had he felt the joy of the word more sweetly, never had he known so clearly that Eros dwells in language.

Cowardice | Cruelty | Loathing | Love | Lust | Security | War | Cruelty |

Thomas Merton

For the birds there is not a time that they tell, but the point vierge between darkness and light, between being and nonbeing. You can tell yourself the time by their waking, if you are experienced. But that is your folly, not theirs.

Force | Good | Guarantee | Love | Men | Power | Security |

Thomas Merton

Contradictions have always existed in the soul of [individuals]. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a constant and insoluble problem. We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the light of exterior and objective values which make them trivial by comparison.

Contemplation | Day | Desolation | Devotion | Discipline | God | Joy | Justice | Labor | Magic | Obscurity | Obscurity | Peace | Relationship | Security | Spirit | Suffering | World | God | Contemplation | Happiness |

Thomas Paine

Wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for God's sake let us come to a final separation.

Design | Security |

United Nations NULL

Article 51 - Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security. Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defense shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.

Nations | Security |

United Nations NULL

Article 92 - The International Court of Justice shall be the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. It shall function in accordance with the annexed Statute, which is based upon the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice and forms an integral part of the present Charter.

Action | Authority | Individual | Nothing | Order | Peace | Present | Responsibility | Right | Security | Time |

United Nations NULL

Article 49 - The Members of the United Nations shall join in affording mutual assistance in carrying out the measures decided upon by the Security Council.

Action | Nations | Order | Security | Strength |

United Nations NULL

Article 45 - In order to enable the United Nations to take urgent military measures, Members shall hold immediately available national air-force contingents for combined international enforcement action. The strength and degree of readiness of these contingents and plans for their combined action shall be determined within the limits laid down in the special agreement or agreements referred to in Article 43, by the Security Council with the assistance of the Military Staff Committee.

Dispute | Order | Peace | Security |

United Nations NULL

Article 34 - The Security Council may investigate any dispute, or any situation which might lead to international friction or give rise to a dispute, in order to determine whether the continuance of the dispute or situation is likely to endanger the maintenance of international peace and security.

Action | Attention | Nations | Peace | Principles | Question | Regard | Regulation | Security |

William Barclay

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

God | Order | Peace | Power | Prayer | Security | Serenity | Silence | God |

William Cohen, fully William Sebastian Cohen

To the extent that this bombing interrupted the training activities of a terrorist network, they may be more safe.

Security | Service |