I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.

A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

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.

I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.

Better pointed bullets than pointed words.