Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

Duty was not untinged by ambition.

Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.

Even his own speeches bored him.

What is cool today is not going to be cool tomorrow, and what wasn't cool yesterday is going to be cool tomorrow.

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.

Everything has to do with murder.

To be human is to be lost in the woods.

Change is continuous and the aggregate of the self is constantly shifting.

Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary.

Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.

I don't take it lightly that I brought a life into this world. They're waiting for you every day, these sweet little angels. You have to have time for them to interact on a daily basis.

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.