Evening Reading

Over at Reporter Tom Rick's Blog at Foreign Policy is a short blurb, reproduced below, and a link to a list of national security related quotations.  As to the source,

For your weekend reading, here is a link to a great compilation of favorite national security quotations, courtesy of retired Army Col. John Collins, chief of the Warlord Loop, a rollicking, on-going, e-mail discussion of national security issues. The link will take you to a fun, wide-ranging list, in which you will see some things you've never seen before, and some familiar ones attributed finally to the right source.

Well worth your time, especially as the winter wind howls outside.

And, of course, the nod to Clausewitz.  Notice that he is holding a copy of On War.

There are several good quotes in there, quotes I like, including the two by Ollie Fritz (quotes are by contributor in alphabetical order).

Interestingly, this item got picked by at least three people:

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Benjamin Franklin

Regards  —  Cliff