Famine for the Word

Might this be the case in the US today? 

Amos 8.11-12:
Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God, 
“when I will send a famine on the land— 
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, 
but of hearing the words of the Lord. 
They shall wander from sea to sea, 
and from north to east; 
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord, 
but they shall not find it. ..."

I know my Redeemer lives!

“Oh that my words were written!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Oh that with an iron pen and lead
they were engraved in the rock forever!
For I know that my Redeemer lives,
and at the last he will stand upon the earth.
And after my skin has been thus destroyed,
yet in my flesh I shall see God,
whom I shall see for myself,
and my eyes shall behold, and not another.
My heart faints within me!”
- Job 19.23-27

http://ref.ly/Jb19.23-27 via the Logos Bible Android app.

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.
- Benjamin Franklin

Mutuality in Thucydides

"They should have shared their power with you before they asked you to share your fortunes with them.”

Corinthians, writing to Athenians, regarding Corcyraeans, in "The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides, Robert B. Strassler, Victor Davis Hanson, Richard Crawley -

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