For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Nature will not be admired by proxy.