"His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw"
"House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly apt and peculiarly his own."
"If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident."
"William McKinley was a man made to be managed."
"What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?"
"Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION."
"The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman."
"The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care."
"A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done."
"Duty was not untinged by ambition."
"Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors."
"Even his own speeches bored him."
"The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists."
"He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea."
"Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor."
"If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture."
"He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him."
"Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous."
"He was always the bridge, between men as well as between ideas."
"The scene is France. The theater is the world."
"Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age."
"Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land."
"The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony."
"All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre."
"Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside."