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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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