George W.:
“America this evening is a nation called to great responsibilities. And we are rising to meet them…

…Americans are proving once again to be the hardest working people in the world…

…Our greatest responsibility is the active defense of the American people…

…I gave to you and to all Americans my complete commitment to securing our country and defeating our enemies…

…America acts in this cause with friends and allies at our side, yet we understand our special calling: This great republic will lead the cause of freedom…”

Joseph Campbell:
“…the only myth that’s going to be worth thinking about, in the immediate future, is one that’s talking about the planet; not the city, not these people, but the planet, and everybody on it…”

Virginia Woolf:
Think we must. Let us think in offices; in omnibuses, while we are standing in the crowd watching Coronations and Lord Mayor’s Shows; let us think as we pass the Cenotaph; and in Whitewall; in the gallery of the House of Commons; in the Law Courts; let us think at baptisms and marriages and funerals. Let us never cease from thinking. What is this “civilization” in which we find ourselves? What are these ceremonies and why should we take part in them? What are these professions and why should we make money out of them? Where in short is it leading us, the procession of the sons of educated men?