Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

We saw the children and the women with their babies and then I heard the poouff — the flame had broken through the thatched roof and there was a yellow- brown smoke column going up into the air. It didn't hit me all that much then, but when I think of it now — I slaughtered those people. I murdered them.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

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.

Some people are more terrorist than others

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