If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire—then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. – Sigmund Wollman, quoted by Robert Fulghum, Uh-Oh, 1991
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. – Ambrose Bierce
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. – Oscar Wilde