“We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a ...” — Kathleen Troia McFarland Quote

“We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.”

“Don't worry, America. We survived Jimmy Carter, and we will survive Barack Obama. Only one questions remains... who is the next Ronald Reagan?”

“It's the libertarians who want to reclaim decision-making for themselves. It's the small government folks who see government as a great Leviathan gobbling up more and more of their treasure and freedoms.”

“The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence.”

“Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.”

“The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.”