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.

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

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

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.

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

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

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