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.

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.

Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.

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 definition of a Dark Age is that we no longer remember what we once could do.

Everything takes longer and costs more.