Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on [office], he wrote to a friend, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Two firing squads marched to the center of the square, faced either way and fired till no more of the targets stood upright. Six hundred and twelve bodies were identified and buried, including Felix F...
To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states. States function only in terms of what those in control perceive as power or personal ambition, and both of these wear bli...
To Wilson neutrality was the opposite of isolationism. He wanted to keep out of war in order to play a larger, not a lesser, part in world affairs. He wanted the great permanent glory for himself as w...
This was not necessarily a deliberate effort to be offensive; it was normal for General Staff officers to be offensive.
They were twelve days in which world history wavered between two courses and the Germans came so close to victory that they reached out and touched it between the Aisne and the Marne.
Thereafter the red edges of war spread over another half of the world. Turkey’s neighbors, Bulgaria, Rumania, Italy, and Greece, were eventually drawn in. Thereafter, with her exit to the Mediterranea...
The wave of insurrection passed, leaving little change in the condition of the working class. Inertia in the scales of history weighs more heavily than change. Four hundred years were to elapse before...
The physical suffering of the disease and its aspect of evil mystery were expressed in a strange Welsh lament which saw death coming into our midst like black smoke, a plague which cuts off the young,...
The lesson was not yet clear in the 18th century, as America was to learn to her cost in our own century, that the presence of disunity in the military about method and strategy, and among the nation'...
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
Sternly saving his greatest strength for the right wing, he did not yield to that vaulting ambition in his plan. But the lure of the left wing remained to tempt his successors.
Only the Church offered an organizing principle, which was the reason for its success, for society cannot bear anarchy.
It is a feature of government that the more important the problem, the further it tends to be removed from handling by anyone well acquainted with the subject.
In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, not vice versa. They are needed and invented to giv...
In the school building taken over by GQG, an unbridgeable gulf separated Operations, the Troisième Bureau, which occupied the class rooms, from Intelligence, the Deuxième Bureau, which was installed i...
I also know that what follows is far from the whole picture. It is not false modesty which prompts me to say so but simply an acute awareness of what I have not included. The faces and voices of all t...
Europe was a heap of swords piled as delicately as jackstraws; one could not be pulled out without moving the others. Under
Devout or not, all owned and carried Books of Hours, the characteristic fashionable religious possession of the 14th century noble.
Depression and despair accompanied the physical symptoms, and before the end death is seen seated on the face.