Interesting quotes...

1.) "When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, 'Who is destroying the world?' You are." - Ayn Rand

The only Ayn Rand quote that sounds agreeable to me. And that is mostly because I haven't read any of her work. I just haven't had the time.

2.) "There's a reason you separate the military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica

And this quote was made in one of the early episodes of the reboot series, circa 2004. That was years before the disturbing trend of police departments across America becoming increasingly more militarized.

3.) "The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." - Thucydides, author of 'The History of the Peloponnesian War' and the Father of "Scientific History"

Looks like the Greeks had a problem with recruiting too many young dumbasses for military service too... Disturbing...

4.) "The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters." - Genghis Khan

^^^And that is why the Mongols...

A.) Menaced China for centuries
B.) Had an empire stretching from Poland to Korea
C.) Left a genetic legacy so vast that one quarter of ALL Human beings on Earth have Mongol DNA.

Temüjin was NOT to be trifled with, folks. Not at all.

5.) "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant." - John Stuart Mill

Sounds like the sort of thing that Libertarians say nowadays, except it came from a 19th century Philosopher.

6.) "I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them." - Don Vito Corleone, in the original novel of The Godfather.

Looks like the Don was a Libertarian before such a thing actually existed...

- Lord Publius