Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

There must not be lacking in our leadership something of that spirit of the Austrian corporal who, when all had fallen into ruins around him, and when Germany seemed to have fallen into chaos, did not hesitate to march forth against the vast army of victorious nations and has already turned the tables decisively against them.