Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have.
The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.