Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place.

Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place.

The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.