You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands before your eyes and say it is dark. Take your hands away and see the light.
To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.
Hasty counsels are generally followed by repentance.
As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you.
That danger which is despised arrives the soonest.
Fighting for survival in a shattered world. . . the truth is her only hope.
If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.
Still, in international matters, the treaty changes nothing. That is, it doesn't prevent us from being friends with other countries, which indeed we are.
The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.