“Totalitarian regimes are innately and inherently aggressive and unstable, and if there is to be a fight with them, which there must/needs be, then it is ill-advised to let them choose the time or the place of engagement.”
Christopher Hitchens

“Western civilization has given mankind the only economic system that works, a rationalist tradition that alone allows us material and technological progress, the sole political structure that ensures the freedom of the individual, a system of ethics and a religion that brings out the best in humankind—and the most lethal practice of arms conceivable. Let us hope that we at last understand this legacy. It is a weighty and sometimes ominous heritage that we must neither deny or feel ashamed about—but insist that our deadly manner of war serves, rather than buries, our civilization.”
Victor Davis Hanson

“It’s a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.”
Henry James

“To use military force requires being ready to use it to the hilt.”
Christopher Hitchens