While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two axioms. One is that there can be no peace without a general surrender of sovereignty: the other is that no country capable of defending its sovereignty ever surrenders it. If one keeps these axioms in mind one can generally see the relevant facts in international affairs through the smoke-screen with which the newspapers surround them.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

The object of powder is powder.

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.