But if out of smugness, or even cowardice, this battle is not fought to its end, then take a look at the peoples five hundred years from now. I think you will find but few images of God, unless you want to profane the Almighty.

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).

I certainly am not alone in the world with this demand; I am in the best of company. Let it be said that no self-respecting people and no responsible government would be able to think or much less act differently in such a case. The world has already seen a great many wars lost in the past.

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

For one cannot assume that God exists to help people who are too cowardly and too lazy to help themselves and think that God exists only to make up for the weakness of mankind. He does not exist for that purpose. He has always, at all times, blessed only those who were prepared to fight their own battles.