'One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.'

'Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.'

'Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that…

'Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.'