I Wish I’d Said That.

Dr. Boli’s Occasional Journal of Quotations.



The Danger of the Military.

On the period of near-anarchy in the Roman Empire of the third century:

It was seen then as it has so often been seen since in the history of the world, that if once the interests of the military profession are allowed to become a paramount consideration in politics, it soon ceases to be an efficient instrument even for its own purpose of scientific manslaughter.

——Thomas Hodgkin, Italy and Her Invaders, introduction.