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.

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

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

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

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.

Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.

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.