"Be sure brain is in gear before engaging mouth."
"We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped out hospitals, killed or mistreated enemy civilians, finished off the enemy wounded, tossed the dying into a hole with the dead, and in the Pacific boiled the flesh off of enemy skulls to make table ornaments for sweethearts, or carved their bones into letter-openers." -- World War II war correspondent Edward L. Jones
"Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and prayers, but she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator of her own." -- John Adams, 1821
"Our tooth-to-tail ratio is so bad that we'll be wearing dentures to our next war. Sure we have 1.4 million military personnel on the books, but we have only 29,000 trigger pullers -- the indispensable rifleman who put holes in enemy soldiers." -- David Hackworth, Defending America, 29 April 1997
"Now I must confess, I’m a very busy man. Supporting my family, other people’s families, other people’s wars, and sponsoring a mass migration across our borders keeps me jumping around." -- Michael Peirce
"As a libertarian, I am relatively uninterested in who holds the reins of power. My interest is in making those reins a lot less powerful, so that I won't care so much who is holding them." -- Gene Callahan
"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." -- WWII Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
"Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the shortcut to everything." -- Samuel Johnson
"If Britain was the world's workshop, the US is the world's mouth. We consume more than we produce and the money winds up in the vaults of countries that consume less than they produce." -- James Grant
