“There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”

“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”

“War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.”

“Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbital motorway is generally agreed to be among the top contenders for exhibit A.”

“Plagues don't just kill people—and that's what lobos is, a plague—they kill humanity.”

“The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.”