Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

There is no proverb that is not true.

... indifference is a militant thing ... when it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery.

A woman employs sincerity only when every other form of deception has failed.