Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.

For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.

Would food be considered an instrument of national power? ... Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their population growth?

We are not just any nation.

To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.