It is certain that the two World Wars in which I have participated would not have occurred had we been prepared. It is my belief that adequate preparation on our part would have prevented or materially shortened all our other wars beginning with that of 1812. Yet, after each of our wars, there has always been a great hue and cry to the effect that there will be no more wars, that disarmament is the sure road to health, happiness, and peace; and that by removing the fire department, we will remove fires. These ideas spring from wishful thinking and from the erroneous belief that wars result from logical processes. There is no logic in wars. They are produced by madmen. No man can say when future madmen will reappear. I do not say that there will be no more wars; I devoutly hope that there will not, but I do say that the chances of avoiding future wars will be greatly enhanced if we are ready.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

Edward Young

A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

Lionel Strachey

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

Phyllis Schlafly

All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.

Sienna Miller

We have to raise the consciousness the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Augustus Hare

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

Max Eastman

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms.

Albert Einstein

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

Henri Matisse

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

Stuart Pearce

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato