There is a joy in danger.
Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it.
Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.
The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory