Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.

In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

To teach is to delight.

You think you are alone. Then you raise your eyes, and you are surrounded.

To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you're doing and insanely confident about your ability to pull it off.

Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.

A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book.

The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.

Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures.

YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break.

There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity.