If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.

I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.

I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand.

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force

The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.

Education is the light in the darkness of ignorance.

I Have Always Had A Facination With England, And Their History.

I am constantly reminded that we are a products of the choices we make

If I get run into again, I'm taking someone with me. I lost one knee. I'll take a head if it happens again.

Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.