Military Historian

🇺🇸Max Boot

Military

b. 1968

"Catering to populist anger with proposals that are certain to fail is not a viable strategy for political success."

🇺🇸Paul Fussell

Literature

1924–2012

"Paul Fussell, Literary Scholar and Critic, Is Dead at 88" by Bruce Weber, The New York Times"

"However doomed a man may be, he still has the great luxury of freedom of thought that can carry him soaring over the past and the future, the single attribute that can never be taken away by tyrant or circumstance."

🇬🇧J. F. C. Fuller

Military

1878–1966

"In 1919 I was the sole person who saw war in the form it would be; yet saw it only as an acorn and not as an oak."

🇬🇧Richard Overy

Journalism

b. 1947

"During the years that followed, Hitler and the Nazi movement were anything but the tools of German big business."

🇮🇱Yuval Noah Harari

Literature

b. 1976

"The most important secular commitment is to the truth, which is based on observation and evidence rather than on mere faith. Seculars strive not to confuse truth with belief."

🇬🇧Alan Clark

Politics

1928–1999

"I only can properly enjoy carol services if I am having an illicit affair with someone in the congregation. Why is this? Perhaps because they are essentially pagan, not Christian, celebrations."

🇬🇧Henry Newbolt

Literature

1862–1938

"Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong."

🇬🇧B. H. Liddell Hart

Military

1895–1970

"If you want no war, you need to know what war is."

🇺🇸William C. Davis (historian)

Education

b. 1946

"In fact, the state rights defense of secession in 1860–1861 did not really appear in force until after 1865 as builders of the Lost Cause myth sought to distance themselves from slavery."

🇺🇸S.L.A. Marshall

Military

1900–1977

"The first duty of the officer is to challenge whatever seems illusory."