Diplomacy is the continuation of war by other means.
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
The worst evils in history have always been committed by those who truly believed they were combating evil. Beware of combating evil.
我不走捷径。
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.