Western elites – the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism – are unhappy in their late middle age, and show little gratitude for, or any idea about, what gave them such latitude. If they cannot find perfection in history, they see no good at all.
Victor Davis Hanson
All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.
William Bradford