Connection was the cement of the governing class.
One aristocratic leader's club was known for, an atmosphere of solemn tranquility, in which reading, dozing, and meditation took precedence over conversation.
To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution.
They governed from duty, heritage and habit—and, as they saw it, from right.
No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.
Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times.
Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.
All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.
The follies that produced the loss of American virtue following Vietnam begin with continuous overreacting, in the invention of endangered national security, the invention of vital interest, the inven...
Everything interested him and everything excited him.
Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.
The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.
He was always the bridge, between men as well as between ideas.
The scene is France. The theater is the world.
One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral.
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
Marco Polo dictated his Travels in French,
He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense.
The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.
Pessimism is a primary source of passivity,