Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
To exraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.
Death is nothing; but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.
An Army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.