"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others."

"Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved."

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."

"War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel."

"War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other's advantage."

"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."

"I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them."

"Lawyer, n. One skilled in the circumvention of the law."

"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."

"In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving."

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves."

"For a living dog is better than a dead lion,"