Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
More Quotes by Adam Hochschild
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace.
I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.