All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best
I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.