I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.

Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.

An armed society is a polite society.

If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!

We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection

Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.