A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

History is the invention of historians.

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

The worse the man, the better the soldier.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.