A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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.
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.