Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.

The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.