We’d be the safest country in the world if the world knew we didn’t have a gun. Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They’re killed because one has a gun.

People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.

The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it’s privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In...

The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a minority of...