Orts #841

   If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
     — Moshe Dayan (1915-1981)


   The US is expected to have spent $1.5 trillion designing, building and maintaining 2500 F.-35s for its own use: enough to forgive the entire nation’s student debts, or pay for the healthcare of every low-income American family for the next three years,...
     — Daniel Soar, The Most Expensive Weapon Ever Built, in the London Review of Books, March 30, 2017, http://bit.ly/2pQ10Jh


   The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
     — Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)


   Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
     — Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
 

   Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
     — Earl Warren (1891-1974)