Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
Human behavior is timeless.
The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.
Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.