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.

Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.

Human behavior is timeless.

The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.

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

in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight

In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence.