The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide.

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.

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

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