Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal."

War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.

Organic planning does not begin with a preconceived goal; it moves from need to need, from opportunity to opportunity, in a series of adaptations that themselves become increasingly coherent and purposeful, so that they generate a complex final design, hardly less unified than a pre-formed geometric pattern.

War is a specific product of civilization.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.