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

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.

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.

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

Clary, " he said. "You're Clary. You're my best friend.

The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.

The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.

One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.

The sh*t's gonna splatter, start buggin, yo..." Mencheres to Cat

Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.

Education is the preparation of the individual for reciprocal union with society; the preparation of the individual so that he can help his fellow-men and in return receive and appreciate their help.