Cody Smith

“We had come from lecture halls, school desks and factory workbenches, and over the brief weeks of training, we had bonded together into one large and enthusiastic group. Grown up in an age of security, we shared a yearning for danger, for the experience of the extraordinary. We were enraptured by war.”
― Ernst Junger, Storm of Steel

“Free markets are necessary to promote long-term growth, but they are not self-regulating, particularly when it comes to banks and other large financial institutions.”
― Francis Fukuyama, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

“Here the fates of nations would be decided, what was at stake was the future of the world. I sensed the weight of the hour, and I think everyone felt the individual in them dissolve, and fear depart.”
― Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel

“While tackling the refugee crisis, we should also get to its roots. Why would anyone want to be displaced if they had a home to return to?”
― Xi Jinping