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    ...as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

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The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing read more

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

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The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is read more

The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission; he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.

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This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but read more

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

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Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.

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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

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That government is best which governs least.

That government is best which governs least.

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