He is like a female llama surprised in her bath.

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.

I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment - and yet - I can't help it - I enjoy every second of it.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.