This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

There are laws for peace as well as war.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.