Clausewitz, a dead Prussian, and Norman Angell, a living if misunderstood professor, had combined to fasten the short-war concept upon the European mind. Quick, decisive victory was the German orthodo...
But to settle the Eastern Question was beyond even Disraeli’s power—beyond, it seems, any human power, for it still haunts the world today.
Bull of September 1348 in which he said that Christians who imputed the pestilence to the Jews had been seduced by that liar, the Devil, and that the charge of well-poisoning and ensuing massacres wer...
As the final crisis boiled, his marginalia on telegrams grew more and more agitated: Aha! the common cheat, Rot! He lies! Mr. Grey is a false dog, Twaddle! The rascal is crazy or an idiot! When Russia...
Anything that protracted a campaign Clausewitz condemned. Gradual reduction of the enemy, or a war of attrition, he feared like the pit of hell.
A regular method was the levy for a crusade, which allowed ecclesiastical income within each country to be taxed by its king, who soon came to regard it as a right.
Women were considered the snare of the Devil, while at the same time the cult of the Virgin made one woman the central object of love and adoration.
Pessimism is a primary source of passivity. As
It might be the destiny of the Jewish race, he said, to be the bridge between Asia and Europe, to bring the spirituality of Asia to Europe and the vitality of Europe to Asia. At
It is necessary to salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman pontiff.
In his message to Congress on December 3, 1901, Theodore Roosevelt said, Anarchism is a crime against the whole human race and all mankind should band against the Anarchist. He was not the product of...
If he had a little more brains he would be a half-wit.
Honor wears different coats to different eyes,
Had said, The greatest contribution Vietnam is making … is developing an ability in the United States to fight a limited war, to go to war without arousing the public ire.
Ecclesiam nulla salus
Major von Kleist gave orders that a man or, if no man was available, a woman, be taken from every household as a hostage. Through some peculiar failure of the system, the greater the terror, the more...
It must always be an amazement how 18th century letter writers - even, and especially, officials - had the time and capacity to produce their sculpted sentences and perfection of grammar and , while 2...
I command, or I keep quiet. Napoleon
Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls.
It was manifest that a malady of such horrors, stenches, and agonies, and especially one bringing the dismal despair that settled upon its victims before they died, was not a plague natural to mankind...