Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.

The Defense Department apparently refused a CIA request to launch an attack on a Syrian terror-sponsoring target within the last two weeks.

My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central human system of thought.