They Can Do Anything We Can't Stop

It Was Miraculous. It Was Almost No Trick At All, He Saw, To Turn Vice Into Virtue And Slander Into Truth, Impotence Into Abstinence, Arrogance Into Humility, Plunder Into Philanthropy, Thievery Into Honor, Blasphemy Into Wisdom, Brutality Into Patriotism, And Sadism Into Justice. Anybody Could Do It; It Required No Brains At All. It Merely Required No Character.

The Country Was In Peril; He Was Jeopardizing His Traditional Rights Of Freedom And Independence By Daring To Exercise Them.

Clevinger Had A Mind, And Lieutenant Scheisskoph Had Noticed That People With Minds Tended To Get Pretty Smart At Times.

There Was Only One Catch And That Was Catch-22. Orr Would Be Crazy To Fly More Missions And Sane If He Didn't, But If He Was Sane He Had To Fly Them. If He Flew Them He Was Crazy And Didn't Have To; But If He Didn't Want To He Was Sane And Had To.

It's A Wise Person, I Guess, Who Knows He's Dumb, And An Honest Person Who Knows He's A Liar. And It's A Dumb Person, I Guess, Whose Convinced He's Wise...-bob Slocum