We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.

Politics is no exact science.

You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them.

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.