Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.

A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.