Love your country, but never trust its government.

There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships or missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time. We've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will.

Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.

Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools.

The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.

Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place.

Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.