The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.

When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.

Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.

Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.

History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.

The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.

Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.

As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live.

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.

Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.

You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.

We are the sons of no one, bastards of young.

It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.

One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.

You cannot choose your battlefield, The Gods do that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.

I was taught to believe, "If you work hard, you will be successful. If you are not successful, it is because you didn't work hard enough."