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.

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.

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.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

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