Nothing Is So Uncertain Or Unpredictable As

Necessity Is The Last And Strongest Weapon.

Treachery, Though At First Very Cautious, In The End Betrays Itself.

That Sense – The Only True Patriotism – Comes Slowly And Springs From The Heart: It Is Founded Upon Respect For The Family And Love For The Soil. Premature ‘liberty’ Of This Kind Would Have Been A Disaster: We Should Have Been Torn To Pieces By Petty Squabbles Before We Had Ever Reached Political Maturity, Which, As Things Were, As Made Possible By The Long Quiet Years Under Monarchical Government; For It Was That Government Which, As It Were, Nursed Our Strength And Enabled Us Ultimately To Produce Sound Fruit From Liberty, As Only A Politically Adult Nation Can.

You Know How To Vanquish, Hannibal, But You Do Not Know How To Profit From Victory.

Men Are Seldom Blessed With Good Fortune And Good Sense At The Same Time.