War is too serious to be entrusted to generals

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

What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?

If you don't vote Socialist/Communist before you are twenty, you have no heart - if you do vote Socialist/Communist after you are twenty, you have no head.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.

There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

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

The best time of love, is when one goes up the stairs.

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for, and they have a right to subject their children to it.

This is the story of my life: standing on the edges of things and worrying, when I'm supposed to just walk through them.

There are bad people out there, Jimmy. I don’t know if you’ve seen them… they walk around like they’re lost. And they make people sick by hurting them. That’s why we stay inside.

It's fun to be at the edges, and tough to be squeezed in between.

Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.

Donald Trump bigotry, his bluster, his bullying, have become his campaign.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

The Republicans just voted last year to end Medicare.