The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

As a means of subsidizing lawyers the present nuclear regulation system is well designed - but is there not perhaps a cheaper way of rewarding legal diligence? It would probably be cheaper to give each law school graduate a guaranteed salary of $50,000 a year on the condition that he (or she) not practice law.

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

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.

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

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.

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