"The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbours, and to the east and west by fish."

"Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at its beginning."

"With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half."

"The world is not governed by the rights of man, but by the might of men."

"The world is ruled by very different people from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."