Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

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).

When the citizens of a nation will no longer volunteer to defend it, then it is probably not worth saving. No nation has the right to survive with conscript troops, and in the long run, no nation ever has.

Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you can't avoid. This permits you to play out the game untroubled by the certainty of the outcome.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.