The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

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

The Foreign Office knows no secrets.

If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.