We cannot allow Afghanistan to become again a haven for terrorists who inspire, plan and provide support for attacks like those of 11 September 2001, of 7 July 2005 in London, and more.
The war in Afghanistan is too important to be reduced to a political football. We are fighting there to protect our national security. We are confronting the Taliban-led insurgency to prevent terrorists returning to that country.
You have to make the compromise: resign, stay out of the government, and you can say what you like... but no one has to do anything about it.
As the Chief of the Defence Staff says, you don't defend on the goal line. Defending the interests of the U.K. means tackling threats early and at source, and that means intervening overseas.
You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself.
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
If you sense there must be more, there is more.
The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
I think you have to listen to the people who are deeply unhappy. You have to find the source of it and not overreact to the craziness in it.
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other s well-being, is source of happiness.
Your most unhappy customers are you greatest source of learning.
