"Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death."

"There are a lot of people who have only one thought all their lives, and they never come into conflict with it. I am not one of them; I learn from life, I learn as long as I live, I learn even today. …"

"A statesman cannot create anything, he must wait and listen until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, and then spring and seize the hem of His garment."

"Politics is the art of the possible, the science of the relative."

"A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed."