Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

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.

There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.