How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

You'll live. Only the best get killed.

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.