War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that’s been going on since the Second World War.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Russia isn’t going to start a war. They can’t afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

I made lots of mistakes – the number one mistake being trusting other people with my money.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

By curious accident of history and geography, the world’s major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They’re a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious – even with new players. You can’t, say, sell him, get a new one.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn’t stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.