An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.

Whatever the criticisms and the after-action report may be about what was right and what was wrong looking back, what would be a horrible tragedy would be to distract ourselves from avoiding further problems because we're spending time talking about problems that have already occurred,

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.