Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating …

Military men are the scourges of the world.