Barbara Tuchman

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

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.

Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.