When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.

Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.

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

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.