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

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 unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard

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.

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

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.