“Whether you end up convinced or not, you will never think about American national security the same way ever again.”

Written with courage and passion, this is a book whose often counterintuitive clarity shakes entombed assumptions like an earthquake.

The Sovereignty Solution works on the receptive mind as a pry bar works on a tightly sealed box.

Like an unexpected wet mop in the face of tired complacency,

What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.

The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who’s selling it to him does not know. There’s no zero sum game in Wall Street.

The more we shall be convinced, that the Moral Virtues are the Political Offspring which Flattery begot upon Pride.

The lowly Nazarene taught us the doctrine of non-resistance, and so convinced was he of the soundness of that doctrine that he sealed his belief with death on the cross. …

You know Hachi, your life depends only on ourselves. I’m still convinced about this… But I’ve also learned to accept that people… don’t all become as strong, and it made me kinder than before.

Indeed, your scars may be your greatest ministry. Just as the scars of Jesus convinced Thomas, perhaps your scars will convince someone today.

I’m convinced many of America’s heroes are public school teachers and administrators.

Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.