Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and i….

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by th….

To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it..

World War II is smothered in sentimentality and nostalgia. What's interesting about Vietnam is that sentimentality is just not there, so you're given….

I am deeply skeptical of re-entering into Iraq's civil war..

Tuthmosis IV was, like his father Amenhotep II, a belligerent pharaoh and one of the first to wage war without provocation beyond Egypt's boundaries.….

In my world of the people who study war and defense issues, we simply did not talk about robotics. We do not talk about it because it's seen as mere ….

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it..

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse..

I think the war movie genre is a very important genre in film. Film gives you a visceral experience of something that you would never otherwise exper….

It's expensive to keep communism alive today. I've already got a huge foreign debt staring me in the face, and I can't reduce it by exporting tomatoe….

It's frustrating sometimes to see the mismatch in resources between the pointless and the urgent, isn't it. Like the gap between the vast resources p….

Straight ahead you can't go very far..

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum..

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war..

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves..

As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization..

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat ….

Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied..

I do think that this represents a kind of shift towards myth, a recovery of myth, largely through the popularity of writers like Philip Pullman. Some….

I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be bl….