In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.

Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.

There are no people in the world who are so slow to develop hostile feelings against a foreign country as the Americans, and no people who, once estranged, are more difficult to win back.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

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