In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.

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

Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.

People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.