It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
I don't think any president that I worked with has ever said 'pretty please.'

