Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.