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.

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.

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

And the first king was a lucky soldier.

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

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.