It's obvious that five days is just enough to give one a false impression of any country.

a victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.

Publicity is the only thing some people fear. An aroused public opinion has been the cause of most reforms. Telling the truth is perhaps the pacifist's only weapon. Over and over again, even the suggestion that one may publish the facts has changed a scornful, bullying opponent into an almost subservient helper. But how dangerous it is!

How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!

how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!

Spying is always an expensive method of acquiring information.

The first casualty in every war is truth.