Over the years I have accumulated a screed of quotations by a wide range of personalities: academics, politicians, activists, writers, and bit-players on the world's stage. Maybe you will find some inspiration, amusement, or puzzlement as you read through them.

Browse the general quotations collection alphabetically using the author's surname as a starting point, or browse by category. There are military quotations sorted into groupings related to intelligence, officers and soldiers, leadership, history and intelligence. There are quotations about Northern Ireland dealing with history, the history of the Troubles, the armed forces, republican movement, loyalism, Unionism and the Dirty War. Finally there are quotations on Central and Eastern Europe and Russia, concentrating on the period 1989-1993 but containing many pertinent quotations from before and after then. These focus on economics, the military, politics and the general transition and liberation movements shaping events at the time.

Each section contains links to Amazon and Blackwells bookshops in the UK and US, where relevant, to the book from which a quotation has been extracted, or to books written by or about the author. It is very straightforward. A black shopping basket indicates a link to Amazon.com; a blue shopping basket a link to Amazon.co.uk; a red shopping basket indicates a link to Blackwells US and a light-blue shopping basket a link to Blackwells UK.