If I don’t start having service I’m going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog.

The early worm deserves the bird.

Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!

There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it "good." He wished that government would wander off and get lost! (96)

Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.

There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.