"American social fences have to be continually repaired; in England they are like wild hedges; they grow if left alone."

"If we are to consider what holds the South back from the modern world in so graceless and often base a way, we must a…"

"After the Civil War any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunk…"

"The combination of a profound hatred of war and militarism with an innocent delight in playing soldiers is one of the…"

"A country has the kind of army its total ethos, its institutions, resources, habits of peaceful life, make possible t…"

"For Americans, war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the iss…"

"It is, I have been told, one of the most formidable of Chinese imprecations to wish that your enemy lived "in interes…"

"We all invent ourselves as we go along, and a great man's myths about himself merely tend to stick better than most."

"The twentieth century had conclusively settled the question of how a society should be organised: liberal democracy, …"

"For James, there was no sense that expanding Tesco’s sales onto the web was what the human race urgently needed. It d…"