You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them

Fools you are who say you like to learn from your mistakes. I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid the cost of my own.

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

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.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.