"Like a baseball game, wars are not..." - Quote by Thomas Sowell
Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.
More by Thomas Sowell
“Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting your own rights in jeopardy - quite aside from undermining any moral basis for respecting anybody's rights. You are opening the floodgates to arbitrary power. And once you open the floodgates, you can't tell the water where to go.”
“One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.”
“In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.”
More on Reality
“Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.”
“And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real”
“The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.”
More on Conflict
“I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.”
“War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.”
“The ties that bind us are stronger than the occasional stresses that separate us.”