War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.
There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?
Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.
We should wash our dirty linen at home.