One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants to take the message directly on the chin.

To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.

If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

When duty calls, that is when character counts.

To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.