Everything interested him and everything excited him.

Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation.

His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw

Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.