Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

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.

One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

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

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.