John Paul

John Paul
animal chemistry young
You understand why some animals eat their young.
america navy naval
...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!
writing doors people
People ask, `What was it like when you wrote Stairway to Heaven?' As if three wisemen had come knocking on the door, `Excuse me, are you writing Stairway to Heaven here?'
war blood wish
An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
mean honor gentleman
It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. . . . No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.
winning law risk
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
uprising surprise world-war-2
Whoever can surprise well must conquer.
winning risk inexorable
He who will not risk cannot win.
memorial-day military war
I have not yet begun to fight!
life fear military
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.
faith stronger mastery
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
country thinking years
I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment.... We cannot ignore the fact that in recent years a disturbing number of inmates on death row have been exonerated.
expression benefits censorship
The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.
exercise pigs justice
When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig is obscene.