I know war as few other men now living know it and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind for thus the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing and of godlike men to want little.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.