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

We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

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.

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide.