Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.

The finger that turns the dial rules the air.

The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.