Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History

The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.

God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

Philosophy is the music of a judgmental mind and imaginative heart.

Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?

I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it's so rich. The doors keep opening.

Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.

The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

I always had an intelligence with me, I was always in the streets, I was always trying to do good. I was always looking for something to guide me. In the beginning church wasn't it.

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

A persons outer action reflects their inner mind.