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Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in office.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.