All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall

  • -- Harry S. Truman 哈里·S·杜鲁门

纵观历史,最先倒下的是那些给予将军们最多,而给予人民最少的国家

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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.

正如第一次世界大战令人痛苦地表明的那样,当政治家和将军们带领国家进入战争时,他们几乎总是假定会迅速取得胜利,而且有一种非常持久的倾向,即不会预见到事后看来显而易见的问题。

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

格言是浓缩的国家的美好感觉。