In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everyone admits that the truth hurts but no one applies this adage to himself -and as soon as it begins to hurt us, we quickly repudiate it and call it a lie. It is this tendency toward self-deception (more than any active sin) that makes human progress slow and almost imperceptible.

Sydney J. Harris

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

George S. Patton

I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, 'The whole time.

Steven Wright

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

E. B. White

Obedience is a word and concept from which the valiant look for their deliverance.

Source Unknown

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

Kenneth Robert Livingstone

He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.

Harry Crews

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

Friedrich von Schiller

I check Style.com to look at the collections and love to poke around some of the other fashion blogs to see what's going on.

Ashley Olsen

My health is the No. 1 concern and my longevity is the No. 1 concern.

Alonzo Mourning