If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.

It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.

The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot