I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would not lose out in reasoned argument or be taken by surprise by their quick-witted opponents, they boldly moved into action. Their enemies,on the contrary, contemptuous and confident in their ability to anticipate, thought there was no need to take by action what they could win by their brains.

We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.

It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

War is an evil thing; but to submit to the dictation of other states is worse.... Freedom, if we hold fast to it, will ultimately restore our losses, but submission will mean permanent loss of all that we value.... To you who call yourselves men of peace, I say: You are not safe unless you have men of action on your side.