The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.

Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.

I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.