To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.

The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.