People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made

God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.

Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian ... The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury.

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.