Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

Politics is not an exact science.

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

Politics ruins the character.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

Politics is the art of the next best.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

No civilization other than that which is Christian is worth seeking or possessing.

People never lie so much as after a hunt during a war or before an election.

Love is blind friendship tries not to notice.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.

It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be on the Fed. And remember, it doesn't pay very well, certainly by Republican standards.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.

Dying is easy; comedy is hard.

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.