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Originally Posted by Stare At The Sun
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
- John Galt
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reading fountainhead and atlas shrugged every few years has kept me on an even keel for a loong time...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
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