“Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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.
