In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]

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.

A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.

We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

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

That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.