The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide.

Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

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.

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.

History is the great propagator of doubt.

The Foreign Office knows no secrets.