I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.

All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.

You want to make me the best soldier possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So far you're doing an excellent job with me. Congratulations. Now when are you going to put me up against a good army?

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.

No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds of affection and friendship might be within same-sex couples, there is no act of court or Congress that can make these relationships the same as the coupling between a man and a woman.

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.