I suppose the three damnedest liars that were ever born are these three--old Frederick, Napoleon, and Bismarck--not, I take it, because they naturally loved lying, but because the game they played constantly called for lying.

There was no other way to play it: they _had_ to fool people all the time.

You have abundant leisure--do this: Read the whole career of Napoleon and write down the startling and exact parallels that you will find there to what is happening to-day.

The French were united and patriotic, just as the Germans now are.

When they invaded other people's territory, they said they were attacked and that the other people had brought on war.