No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
The Foreign Office knows no secrets.
If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.