Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
From Barbara Tuchman
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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