History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

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

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men

It is far easier to make war than to make peace

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