If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.

Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob and left him drained of ... energy.

Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.

The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.