Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.