For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Even a paranoid has some real enemies.

Foreign Policy is not missionary work.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

My lord and Dr Johnson disputed a little, whether the savage or the London shopkeeper had the best existence; his lordship, as usual, preferring the savage.

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissanc…

McMahon up the street of Paris came, In triumph from Magenta. Every one Had heard and praised the fearless marshal's name, And gloried in the deeds that he had…