We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

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

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

If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

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

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

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.