1892 quotes by historians for you to enjoy

And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought. Arthur Bryant

Great Thought Dinner Think Ought Secretary Record Stays Great Ones He His Brain Depart Report While Racking Growing Thinks Thinner

Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich. Arthur Bryant

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. Arthur Helps

Affection Recipes Admiration Surest Mixture Pity

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed. Arthur Helps

Man Book Picture Action Only Picture Book His Creed

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome. Arthur Helps

Overcome Sense Danger Has-Been Never Perhaps Been Fully

It is a fact that the Left routinely resists, then as now: Americans fought and died in Vietnam for freedom, just as they are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan today. Whatever mistakes generals and policymakers have made along the way cannot detract from that essential truth - which should be a part of any reliable history. Arthur L. Herman

Today Truth Freedom History Made Mistakes Whatever Way Reliable Fact Generals Part Along Policymakers Doing Iraq Left American Died Any Essential Afghanistan Just Cannot Which Then Vietnam Should Fought Now

Whatever one wants to say about the conduct of the Iraq War, going to war to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003 was a necessary act. It should and could have been done earlier, had not the Clinton White House, which understood the need, not wasted the opportunity through timidity and bluster. Arthur L. Herman

War Opportunity Remove Whatever White White House Say Hussein About Could Through Had Saddam Saddam Hussein House Understood Been Clinton Iraq Iraq War Conduct Timidity Done Going Wants Which Should Act Wasted Earlier Necessary Need

In his final year in office, Clinton decided that his contribution to Middle East peace would lie not in the removal of Saddam Hussein but in a grand attempt to resolve the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel. With this, he missed his last chance to deal forcefully with the man he was publicly committed to overthrowing. Arthur L. Herman

Man Peace Conflict Lie Year Resolve Final East Would Hussein Attempt He Saddam Saddam Hussein Between Missed Removal Deal Israel His Clinton Office Contribution Committed Middle Middle East Decided Grand Publicly Palestinians Last Chance

Righteousness is easy in retrospect. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Righteousness Easy Retrospect

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness. B. H. Liddell Hart

Life War Hope Hopelessness Rather Issues Loss Than Decide Helplessness

In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future. B. H. Liddell Hart

Future Past Reflect Endeavor Duty Action Every Soldier Immediate Sphere Particular Discover His Experiences Which Should

Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many. B. H. Liddell Hart

War Few Guerrilla Kind Support Waged Dependent Many

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. Barbara W. Tuchman

Me Library Closed Nothing More Than Door

War is the unfolding of miscalculations. Barbara W. Tuchman

War Unfolding

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. Barbara W. Tuchman

World Old Diplomacy Power Wicked Secret Spheres Triple Alliance Devices Period Balances Influence Means Interim Old World Fascism Appeasement Treaties

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. Barbara W. Tuchman

Time Revolution Every Tyrant Puts Successful

Books are humanity in print. Barbara W. Tuchman

Humanity Books Print In Print

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision. Barbara W. Tuchman

Government Decision Face Distressing More Come Than Which Requires Hard Moment Ever Fast Specific British British Government

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity. Barbara W. Tuchman

Writing Degree Would Had Taken Stifled Any Capacity

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