Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble a million lives. Whats hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you cant keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity.

Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.