I pay attention only to what people do or say. I never pay attention to what they think.

I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.

It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.

We should wash our dirty linen at home.

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

The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

History is a myth that men agree to believe.