I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate

War,--the trade of barbarians!

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.