"As each great power has risen in the ranks, boosted by its expanding material base, it has tended to devote more and …"

"Military power is sustained, in the final result, by economic power. If the latter crumbles, so eventually will the f…"

"The above remarks about conservatism could be made with equal or even greater force about the Mogul Empire. Despite t…"

"Imperial overstretch has rarely occurred because a great power had too little military force; on the contrary, it was…"

"The emperors, kings, prime ministers and presidents of great powers have always preferred the heady world of diplomac…"

"The Enterprise is a vessel that defies the landlubber's imagination. It is more than 1,100ft long and its flight deck…"

"Nothing has ever existed like this disparity of power; nothing. I have returned to all of the comparative defence spe…"

"Scientific education is catholic; it embraces the whole field of human learning. No student can master all knowledge …"

"Honest investigation is but the application of common sense to the solution of the unknown. Science does not wait on …"

"Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libat…"