Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
When great questions end, little parties begin.
A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.