We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.

Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.