House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.

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.

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.