When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only th
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In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bache
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Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliance
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In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common,
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The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a cont
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipli
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific dec
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphl
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Really, Barbara, you go on as if religion were a pleasant subject. Do have some sense of propriety.
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