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

I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know.

Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive capabilities. A deterrent works until it is needed; then one needs defenses.

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]

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

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.

What man has done, man can aspire to do.