Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.

The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th century legislation, came down from the top, out of aa nobleman's private feelings about the Gospel, or that the abolition of the slave trade was achieved, not through the operation of some "law" of profit and loss, but peurlet as the result of tyhe new humanitarianism of the Evangelicals.