God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.

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.

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

It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.

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