War is horrible, but slavery is worse.
The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.
When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.
Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.
Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.
No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.