It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you

But what's the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.

Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.