Laurel is gone, my men are gone, Ed is dead -- and you come to me, to help me.

I asked the same questions inside the launch-control rooms of an Atlas missile base in Wyoming, where officers who wear sidearms are manning the `` commit buttons '' that could start a war -- accidentally or by design -- and in the command centers where other pistol-packing men could give orders to push such buttons.

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

These men are not callous.

Hundreds of men are required to pass the word to the button pushers and to push the buttons.

At least a dozen men, some armed, are never far away from him.

At any rate, three men out of a six-man B-52 crew are required to copy down Wisman's go-to-war message.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

The men crying love poems in an orchard on any summer's night are as often as not the lutihaw, mustachioed toughs who spend most of their lives in and out of the local prisons, brothels, and teahouses.

We began by declaring that all men are created equal.

We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

When the Know-nothings get control, it will read, All men are created equal except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The capacity for making the distinctions of which diplomacy is compact, and the facility with language which can render them into validity in the eyes of other men are the leader's means for transforming the moral intuition into moral leadership.

Its ontological status is itself most tenuous because apart from individual men, who are its `` matter '', tradition, the `` form '' of society exists only as a shared perception of truth.

There is essential pleasantness in reading the writing of men who are not angry, who can contend without quarreling.

What is more, the legends have become so sacrosanct that the very habit of self-examination or self-criticism smells of low treason, and men who practice it are defeatists and unpatriotic scoundrels.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

One is so accustomed to think of men as the privileged who need but ask and receive, and women as submissive and yielding, that our sympathies are usually enlisted on the side of the man whose love is not returned, and we condemn the woman as a coquette.

He claims, too, that his political convictions are simply those which are called `` Revolution Principles '' and which are accepted by moderate men in both parties.

When we consider the disorganized state of the world community, and the legacy of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles of men needs to be prosecuted with increasing vigor and skill.

`` For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive -- your trespasses ''.

' Then he said: ' Sirs, ye are my men, my companions and friends in this journey: I require you bring me so far forward, that I may strike one stroke with my sword.

22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars ' hill, and said, " Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

18Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor?

The College motto is a biblical quotation from 1 Corinthians, chapter 16, verse 13, in Greek, " ΑΝΔΡΙΖΕΣΘΕ ", translated in the King James Version as " Quit ye like men " ( alternatively, in the Douay Rheims version, " Do manfully " or, in the New American Bible, " Be courageous ").

" Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven ..... That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

She called out, " Why run you away from such worthless creatures, stout men that ye are, when, as seems to me likely, you might slaughter them like so many cattle?

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" ( But ) among ( their ) God-fearing men were two on whom The Lord had bestowed His grace: They said: " Assault them at the ( proper ) Gate: when once ye are in, victory will be yours ; But on Allah put your trust if ye have faith.

In their sorrow and joy, in the creative spirit and all that moved the souls of these men, Judah sympathetically shared ; as he says in the beginning of a short poem: " My heart belongs to you, ye noble souls, who draw me to you with bonds of love ".

: 17 But whatsoever thing persuadeth men to do evil, and believe not in Christ, and deny him, and serve not God, then ye may know with a perfect knowledge it is of the devil ; for after this manner doth the devil work, for he persuadeth no man to do good, no, not one ; neither do his angels ; neither do they who subject themselves unto him.

" I would that ye should understand that God himself shall come down among the children of men, and shall redeem his people.

:" I would that ye should understand that God himself shall come down among the children of men, and shall redeem his people.

“ The Abbess and convent ... had begun and with great cost completed the erection of a certain edifice more spacious and convenient as well for the habitation of themselves as of the said religious brethren, which monastery so built anew and enlarged they have earnestly requested licence of us ... to consecrate and set apart as a habitation for them the said abbess and nuns and men of religion ... Know ye we therefore of our pity have ... permitted them ... to the said mansion so chosen and by the said abbess and convent erected edified built and enlarged as aforesaid ... to remove immediateley ...”

*: And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites ; and I delivered them into your hand.

:" if it be of men, it will come to naught, but if it be of God, ye will not be able to overthrow it ; lest perhaps ye be found even to fight against God ".

: O ye children of men, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

But if they really hoped to succeed they needed professionals, men who knew how to use a gun against men, who would match the killers on the other side.

They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor, four roughly garbed and tough-looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house.

For men who had left cattle alone after getting their first notices had received no second.

But the day of the deadline came and passed, and the men who had scoffed at the warnings laughed with satisfaction.

He tells of three men who started out on a trip across a single paddock, a ten-by-ten-mile square owned by a sheep grazer.

Even today range riders will come upon mummified bodies of men who attempted nothing more difficult than a twenty-mile hike and slowly lost direction, were tortured by the heat, driven mad by the constant and unfulfilled promise of the landscape, and who finally died.

It is well then that in this hour both of `` national peril '' and of `` national opportunity '' we can take counsel with the men who made the nation.

On their decisive battlefield Lincoln did not distinguish between them when he paid tribute to the `` brave men, living and dead, who fought here ''.

The novelist who has been badly baptized in psychoanalysis often gives us the impression that since all men must have an Oedipus complex all men must have the same faces.

He is the stern guardian of the status quo who has raised the utilitarian structures of the age, and he is the revolutionary poet with a gun in his hand who writes a tragic apologetic to posterity for the men he has killed.