You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.

I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.

Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.