They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.