All Quotes

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. ”

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. ”

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. ”

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. ”

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. ”

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice. ”

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. ”

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. ”

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. ”

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. ”