Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action..

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth ….

A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is w….

My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until in a petty three months' campaign ….