He Who Hesitates Is Sometimes Wise.

A Winner Must First Know What Losing's Like.

Can You Understand Why The Congress, Most States And Most Cities Refuse To Pass Legislation Requiring The Registration And Licensing Of Any And All Guns? For The Life Of Me, I Can't. We Must Register Our Cars And Be Licensed To Drive. In Many Places We Must Get Licenses For Dogs And Even Bicycles. Being Required To Register Firearms And Show The Competence And Capacity To Handle Them Hardly Seems Unreasonable, Hardly Seems An Infringement Of Freedom. What Is It That Blocks Such Legislation? Why Do They Block It? How Are They Able To Block It?

Anyone Who Says Businessmen Deal In Facts, Not Fiction, Has Never Read Old Five-year Projections.

It Is A Damned Sight Easier To Start Wars Than To End Them. This Truth Has Been Stated For As Long And As Often As It Has Been Ignored. High Time And Thank God, We Are At Least Moving Toward De-escalation In Vietnam. The Road To Extrication Will Be Long, Painful, Bitter. But It Must Be Trod. We Are So Bogged Down In Vietnam That We Cannot Respond Effectively Anywhere Else In The World To A Military Power Play Except Through Atomic Bombardment.

There's One Post-christmas Chore I Love-writing Thank-you Letters.... Lots Of Companies For Many Reasonable Reasons, I Guess, Have A Policy Against Sending Even Christmas Cards, Never Mind Things, At Christmastime. But Our Clan Gets A Big Kick Out Of Opening The Warner-lambert Box Containing An Assortment Of Their Wares; We Argue Over Which Of The Boys Is To Get The Union Oil Co. Necktie [and] All The Holiday Long We Play The Marvelous Christmas Music Sent By Goodyear.... None Of These Things Means That Forbes Or Forbeses Have Been Had. But All Of Us Like Being Thought Of.