If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.

In the old days it would have been a relatively simple matter to have checked Hitler's territorial ambitions. All you'd have needed would have been the 1914 combination of Britain, France and Russia. Indeed, if such an alliance had acted decisively to defend Czechoslovakia in 1938, Hitler might even have been overthrown by his own military. But it was not to be.

I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers.

From the earliest days, the Rothschilds appreciated the importance of proximity to politicians, the men who determined not only the extent of budget deficits but also the domestic and foreign policies.

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.