Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events… incompetent or arrogant commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant fortune, ugly surprise, awful miscalculations.... Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives. Five years is a lot. Twenty years is the horizon to most people. Fifty years is antiquity. To understand how the impact of destiny fell upon any generation of men one must first imagine their position and then apply the time-scale of our own lives.