Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.
There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.
This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.