You must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned.

Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

We do not teach history; we recreate the experience. We follow the chain of consequences - the tracks of the beast in its forest. Look behind our words and you see the broad sweep of social behavior that no historian has ever touched.

He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.

Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.