Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we’ve been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.
Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we’ve been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
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