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.
From John Keegan
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.
The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.
Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.
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.
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.
I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.
I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.
There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force.
If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.
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