Abhijit Joshi

“For just as no politics can be pure, so no “grand strategy” will remain unaffected by the unforeseen.”
― John Lewis Gaddis, On Grand Strategy

“[H]e was large-hearted and possessed wide political horizons, imaginative sweep, understanding of the time in which he lived and of the direction of the great new forces at work in the twentieth century—technological, racial, imperialist, anti-imperialist; he was in favour of life and movement, the promotion of the most generous possible fulfillment of the largest possible number of human wishes, and not in favour of caution and retrenchment and sitting still. Above all, he was absolutely fearless.”
― John Lewis Gaddis, On Grand Strategy

“Statesmen of this type know what to do and when to do it, if they are to achieve their ends, which themselves are usually not born within some private world of inner thought, or introverted feeling, but are the crystallisation, the raising to great intensity and clarity, of what a large number of their fellow citizens are thinking and feeling in some dim, inarticulate but nevertheless persistent fashion.”
― John Lewis Gaddis, On Grand Strategy

“We all make mistakes but one has to move on.”
― Jeffrey Archer