"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others."

"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied."

"He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss."

"Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it."

"War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel."

"We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed."

"The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination."

"If you're not turned on to politics, politics will turn on you."

"In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects."

"It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them."

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."

"A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."