Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.

As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents.

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.