A self-respecting nation is ready for anything including war except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

The genuine truth and I do think about this a lot is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this except that it ain't so.