Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.