The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest.

All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.