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.

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

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

The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide.

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.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.