War,--the trade of barbarians!

If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

Unavailable wars are always just.

This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.