Danh ngôn của Barbara W. Tuchman (Sứ mệnh: 2)

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.