Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

War is what happens when language fails.

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.

The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.