One can become a leader only if one is supported by an ideology which makes other people tractable and accommodating.

One can become a leader only if one is supported by an ideology which makes other people tractable and accommodating.

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.

The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.

...as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst read more

...as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will read more

There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is read more

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.