"Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war."

"If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism."(Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini)"

"I like to live in the past. I don't think people are going to get much fun in the future."

"Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times."

"History is written by the victors."