Credit ... is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

"My country, right or wrong" is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying "My mother, drunk or sober."

There is no cure for birth and death other than to enjoy the interval.

You may my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours.