A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will gather into gangs.

And the first king was a lucky soldier.

There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.

Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.

To take life was to understand your own death--that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.

Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?