We moralize among ruins.
We cannot learn men from books.
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.