“When my journal appears, many statues must come down.” — Duke of Wellington Quote

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

Publish and be dammed.

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.

Whenever Congress undertakes large-scale reform, there are times when disaster appears certain - only to be averted at the last minute by the good sense of its sometimes unfairly maligned members.

Paris is in a tranquil state; the infernal cabal that besieges me appears guided by foreigners. This idea consoles me, for nothing is so painful as being persecuted by one's own fellow-citizens.