Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them.
He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it. Pope Alexander
Something in me broke and I was never the same thereafter.
Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King and, faced with the choice to acquiesce or resist...
The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. – Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed
Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation.
Fireflies were the souls of unbaptized dead infants.
Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.
Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.
His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction.
He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him.
Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power.
England's traditional tolerance was outraged at last.
Can the military art be learned in the games and hunts in which you pass your youth? The
What made the Schlieffen plan was not Clausewitz and the Battle of Cannae, but the body of accumulated egoism which suckled the German people and created a nation fed on the desperate delusion of the...
The early removal from school of future officers of Britain's seapower, leaving them unacquainted with the subject matter and ideas of the distant and recent past, may account for the incapacity of no...
Our misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence and hate were not equally present.
Nineteenth-century liberalism had assumed that man was a rational being who operated naturally according to his own best interests, so that in the end, what was reasonable would prevail. On this princ...
Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Duty was not untinged by ambition.