"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others."

"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied."

"He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building."

"He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss."

"Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force."

"When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content."

"There isa€|nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs."

"Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth."

"I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in."

"Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything."

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded: dead."

"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children."