In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
— William Ellery Channing
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.
Shall we be despised by foreign powers for hesitating so long at a word?
So in the Libyan fable it is toldAre we now smitten."