The bards sing of love$$$ they celebrate slaughter$$$ they extol kings and flatter queens$$$ but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.

A leader leads$$$ and you can't ask men to risk death if youre not willing to risk it yourself.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

It's not conditions but decisions that determine our lives.

There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence$$$ and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

In hours of bliss we oft have met:<br>They could not always last;<br>And though the present I regret$$$<br>I'm grateful for the past.

Men build society and society builds men.

He never fell$$$ never slipped back$$$ never flew.

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter$$$ then the world is a cruel jest.