Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.