Poetry has done enough when it charms but prose must also convince.
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Men always makes gods in their own image.
The only laws a man can truly respect are the ones he makes for himself.
Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit...
