What we learn from History is that no one learns from History

The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.

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

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 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.

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.

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