Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities. – Alfred North Whitehead
In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort. – Bill Kristol
To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future. – Emile M. Cioran