I believe military force can be used to redress or change the balance of power in the world, but I think that that's always a losing operation if you're not trying to do it in a way which corresponds to the basic desires of the people on whom you are acting.

Every time I have a political rally I meet some people who say, "I need a job."

Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.

Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.

There are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just dont like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go and bleed It is more important to keep law and order in society than to be worried about weak-kneed people Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.

I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.