Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work.

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

Knowing where the trap is—that's the first step in evading it.

The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.

The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes.

A broken spoon may become a fork.