You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them
Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast, are denied access.
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.
A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.