In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.