Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.

Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

Any idiot can see something wrong. But can you see what is right?