When asked why he published his articles under a penname, he replied "When it came time to publish them, I discovered a hitherto unsuspected streak of modesty in my character. I was not modest all over, but I was modest in places and claiming credit for those articles was one of the places. So, I used a penname."
"You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your life which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the military world."
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms."
"The second best army, the one that is good, but not good enough to win, is the most expensive luxury in the world"
"A nation that has nothing but contempt for its military will soon have a military worthy of nothing but contempt."
Flash Magnus to Starswirl