In the news trenches, always he battled to be accurately first, ... Ed Turner was walking ethics.

We must either breed political capacity or be ruined by Democracy, which was forced on us by the failure of the older alternatives. Yet if Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters: that is, of political critics who, if they cannot govern in person for lack of spare energy or specific talent for administration, can at least recognize and appreciate capacity and benevolence in others, and so govern through capably benevolent representatives? Where are such voters to be found today? Nowhere.

All kinds of ordnance was being dropped, all kinds of bombs, and I made my peace with myself that I could die at any moment, ... We knew the dangers around us. I always believed that two major forces -- one of them supreme -- saved us that night: God and some extremely well trained and well disciplined American pilots.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.".