More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.
The statesman who yields to war fever. . . is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
The point is to make the pie grow faster and distribute the new growth more equitably.
Good people protect people they love even if that means that pretending that everything is okay.