Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force

The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.

The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand.