The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.

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 April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence.

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.

The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.

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

Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.