The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough.
Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.