If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.