Famous quotes containing the words lord and/or cockburn:
“The LORD forbid that I should raise my hand against the LORD’s anointed; but now take the spear that is at his head, and the water jar, and let us go.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 26:11.
David, who is unwilling to kill king Saul.
“A “just war” is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.”
—Alexander Cockburn (b. 1941)