It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.