Expert knowledge is limited knowledge

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.

History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards the German chancellor prior to the outbreak of war: We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation. . . .

The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.