Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

The Foreign Office knows no secrets.

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.