No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.