The luxury of one's own opinion.

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.

Sometimes you don't really see who you are, until you see who you are not".

I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you.

I can't concentrate on golf or bowling. Those bowling pins aren't going to hurt me. I can concentrate in the ring because someone is trying to kill me.

I hate travelling and explorers

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

I don't have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.

Irritation for some men was their response to strain.

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.