Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.