The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide.

Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

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.

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.