“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”

"In the state of nature profit is the measure of right."

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."

"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."