Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viki….

It's the nature of government, to build enduring institutions, structures that stay long after their purpose is over. If you pay people to help the p….

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action..

I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quo….

A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of….

Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive cap….

The difference between Libertarian and Conservative is that Conservatives understand this, and know that unregulated capitalism will eventually end w….

Gates has always understood Moore's Law better than anyone else in the industry. If you can make something run at all, get it out there -it may be sl….

I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished material. By finished, I mean co….

Paradoxically, the few eras of peace were times when men of war had high influence. The Pax Romana was enforced by Caesar's Legions. The Pax Brittani….

To stand on the firing parapet and expose yourself to danger; to stand and fight a thousand miles from home when you're all alone and outnumbered and….

Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply..

Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or moralit….

In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who wor….

A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things c….

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission..

We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder..

In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucra….

One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets..

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free..

That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error..