All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the hour of the great offenses ... fix your bayonets boys ...gentlemen, synchronize your watches ... in ten seconds time the barrage starts ... a thousand men are destined to die in order to capture a farmhouse no one has lived in for years...

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.

A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.