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

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.

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

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

The Foreign Office knows no secrets.

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

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