Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of the Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution, by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews.

[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.

I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.

We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.

There is no such thing as a good tax.