People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Politics ruins the character.
Not by speeches and votes of the majority, are the great questions of the time decided – that was the error of 1848 and 1849 – but by iron and blood.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
The Americans are a very lucky people. They’re bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.