There are all kinds of different forms of public service, but there's no form of public service that can make more difference for more people than partisan political activity.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.

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There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel of memory through which fierce and unrequited longings surge, longings that define and shape a whole life.

Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural.