No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.

Human behavior is timeless.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

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

An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.

Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King and, faced with the choice to acquiesce or resist, took less than three hours to make her decision, knowing it might be mortal.

When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.