So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal substances on the planet, waging war on all rivals, whether they take the form of the Thai domestic tobacco industry or the Colombian cocaine cartels.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal substances on the planet, waging war on all rivals, whether they take the form of the Thai domestic tobacco industry or the Colombian cocaine cartels.

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too.