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I am more afraid of our own blunders than of the enemy's devices.

I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire...

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

" war is a matter not so much of arms as of money,"

Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch, their renewal of life, this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the Ten Commandments.

It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disaster to discuss the matter.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

In...the book of Egoism, it is written, possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

For the true author of the subjugation of a people is not so much the immediate agent, as the power which permits it having the means to prevent it.