A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.

Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.