When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
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.
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.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.