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

Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

Victory is only wrested by running risks.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.