Quote #31699
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and...
Quote #8281
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one...
Quote #11709
Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there...
Quote #5752
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or...
Quote #17639
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
Quote #23904
For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical...
Quote #16006
But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Quote #10401
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
Quote #6513
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of...
Quote #15993
Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.