Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom unless they teach virtue they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians bureaucrats policemen and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft no new taxes no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.

I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

What is not conservative about saying 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.