War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.

Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.

Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.