All history is really nothing more than the application of ideology to the past. - Tom Clancy

Mr. President. Douglas MacArthur said every military disaster can be explained in two words: ‘Too late.

Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it. Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."