64 Quotes by John Keegan

We have ample parking, it's just not on the main drag,

We are going to talk to franchisers, the types of businesses that are attractive to shoppers, the kinds of stores that make people get out of their cars and browse,

We've got the projects identified, ... Within the next few weeks the engineering staff and the finance staff will re-evaluate our entire capital improvements program.

As contact with the enemy draws nearer, anticipation sharpens into fear. Its physical effects are striking. The heart beats rapidly, the face shines with sweat and the mouth grows dry - so dry that men often emerge from battle with blackened mouths and chapped lips.

I know that both states are working on it, ... but what bothers me is that it's taking so long.

Because you've got to have the best job in the entire city,

Slavery in the modern world implies the absolute deprivation of the individual's liberty, while possession of weapons and mastery of their use are means to the individual's liberation. We do not perceive how a man may be armed and at the same time bereft of his freedom.

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

Of whatever class or nation, however, all successful participants in the repetitive and unrelenting stress of aerial fighting came eventually to display its characteristic physiognomy: skeletal hands, sharpened noses, tight-drawn cheek bones, the bared teeth of a rictus smile and the fixed, narrowed gaze of men in a state of controlled fear.