There's A Little Book
Entitled "Bits & Pieces". It's actually a monthly pamphlet filled with paragraph sized words of wisdom gleaned from all over the place. I enjoy reading it every month and look forward to seeing it in my mailbox. The last issue had a section called Have Trust In Yourself and, after reading it, I realized that the three blurbs in that section apply more than ever to our current situation. This is what they had to say:

•  No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another
  person.
  
  Attributed to Willa Cather.
  
  What this says is pretty plain.  We can't put our country's
  security in the hands of any other nation or world organization. 
  Having friends and allies is one thing.  Trusting them to come through
  when we need them is another.  And the UN is a fiasco. 
  Pronouncements from Annin and others--the weapons inspectors for
  example--about how the Iraqis are cooperating, ad nauseum, are
  worthless.  Saddam and his cronies are ruthless, murdering liars. 
  No matter how much they say they are cooperating, there are weapons of mass
  destruction somewhere in Iraq.  We have to destroy both the weapons and
  Saddam Hussein.


• Let us keep our mouths shut and our pen dry until we know the facts.
  
  Attributed to Anton J. Carlson
  
  This seems like pretty good advice to the leftist press and some
  democrats of high stature.  There's also a lot of blogging that falls
  in this category.


• Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who
  encourage more than criticize.
  
  Attributed to Elizabeth Harrison.
  
  I can add nothing to this statement.