Everything that steel achieves in war can be won in politics by eloquence

War is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means.

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics

Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, - being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity

The eyebrows form but a small part of the face, and yet they can darken the whole of life by the scorn they express

In politics nothing is contemptible.