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

The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

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

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.