It is not an event; it is a piece of news.

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.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

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

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

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.