How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

One does not arrest Voltaire.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.