Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard.

It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.

The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)

Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

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