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

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

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.

Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.

Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.

Begin challenging your own assumptions.

There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.