To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

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.

Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.

Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.

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

Books are humanity in print.