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In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over the Antietam took place.

I truly do believe that history teaches that weakness arouses evil, and whether it be the horrific attack in France, the inspired attacks here in the United States, the instability in Turkey that led to a coup.

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.