We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

....men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them. Essay on Kipling.

The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.

Good writing is like a windowpane

To die hating them, that was freedom.