Greater is our terror of the unknown. |
I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them. |
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest. |
In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest. |
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. |
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. |
Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes. |
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze. |
War is just to those to whom war is necessary. |