If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.
War remains the decisive human failure.
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.
The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.