There has never been any custom, however useless it may become with changing conditions, that isn't clung to desperately simply because it is something old and familiar. The Dark Ages (1968)
Probably, the most-often-repeated lesson in history is that foreigners who are called in to help one side in a civil war take over for themselves. It is a lesson that seems never to be learned despite endless repetition. The Dark Ages (1968)
It is an odd fact that anyone who wishes to start a war must always make it appear that he is fighting in a just cause even if the real motive is naked aggression. Fortunately for the would-be aggressor, a "just cause" is very easy to find. The Dark Ages (1968)