To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions, and Michel duly paid for his clairvoyance.
Once the mobilization button was pushed, the whole vast machinery for calling up, equipping, and transporting two million men began turning automatically. Reservists went to their designated depots, w...
Its Seventh Commandment, italicized by the authors, stated: Battles are beyond everything else struggles of morale. Defeat is inevitable as soon as the hope of conquering ceases to exist. Success come...
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 worth noting the qualities this historian ascribes to them: they were fearless, high-principled, deeply versed in ancient and modern political thought, astute and pragmatic, unafraid of experime...
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 there have been mute inglorious Miltons in rural villages, presumably there have been unrealized Washingtons born in unpropitious times.
Hierosolyma est Perdita
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...
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...
Had all the world been a school and Wilson its principal, he would have been the greatest statesman in history.
Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done. This in essence was to be the Burke thesis: that principle does not have to be demonstrated when the demonstration is inexpedient.
Doctors were admired, lawyers universally hated and mistrusted.
On October 17, the day when Cornwallis, heralded by his little drummer boy, asked for terms, his would-be rescuers in New York, Graves and Clinton, setting a record for belated action in military hist...
In Whitehall that evening, Sir Edward Grey, standing with a friend at the window as the street lamps below were being lit, made the remark that has since epitomized the hour: The lamps are going out a...
In France they were called écorcheurs (skinners) and routiers (highwaymen), in Italy condottieri from the condotta or contract that fixed the terms of their employment as mercenaries.
By such accident of the human mind, war, trade, and history are shaped. The
Between policy-makers in the capital and realities in the field lies an eternal gap whitened by the bones of failed and futile efforts.
Because life was collective, it was intensely sociable and dependent on etiquette, hence the emphasis on courteous conduct and clean fingernails.