Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

Working because you want to is the best sort of play.

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!

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.

Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

Women talk when they want to. Or don't.