Lunatics are writers whose works write them.

Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.

How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!

Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.

I'm not a great deep political thinker.