One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash.

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

Much of economics isn't difficult, or rather, the difficulty is in cooking up arguments to "prove" that commonsense conclusions are wrong. The fact is that many commonsense conclusions are quite correct, and it takes a lot of education to get you to believe different.

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

I've noticed that just about every time I find a large program with known glitches that no one seems able to fix, that program is written in C and is likely written by a programming team in a remote location.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.