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

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

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

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.

Alexander, Charlemagne and myself all tried to found an empire on force and we failed. Jesus Christ is building an empire on love, and today there are millions of people who would gladly die for His sake.

War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.