The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do. – Louis Gottschalk, Understanding History
From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war. – Margot Asquith
Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldnt do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years. – Peter Singer
