America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he is not a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.