It
is not they love peace less, but that they love their kind of peace
more.
--
Saint Augustine, "City of God"
You
can always keep the peace if you are willing to pay the asking price;
and it is a matter of high strategic decision whether the price
demanded is worse than refusal with its risk of war.
--
Samuel Eliot Morison, The Two-Ocean War, p. 43.
America
in 1939 – 1941 wanted neither world power nor world responsibility,
only to be let alone; but world power and world responsibility were
forced upon her by the two nations, Germany and Japan, that badly
wanted both.
--
Samuel Eliot Morison, The Two-Ocean War, p. 45.
“'Better'
is the enemy of 'Good Enough”
--
Admiral Sergey Gorshkov
"If
you are looking for perfect safety, you will do well to sit on the
fence and watch the birds."
--
Wilbur Wright
"Somebody
once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three
qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't
have the first, the other two will kill you...."
--
Warren Buffett
"Anything
asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."
--
Lawrence Krauss
If
a scholar has nothing new to say he should keep quiet.”
--
Samuel
P. Huntington
"The
quest for truths is synonymous with intellectual controversy."
-- Samuel
P. Huntington
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