I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.
No matter. The dead bird does not leave the nest.
The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.
If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.
We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.
The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.
Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!
There are two kinds of success-initial and ultimate.
The true guide of life is to do what is right.
The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish.
Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.
The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.
Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.
There are no people in the world who are so slow to develop hostile feelings against a foreign country as the Americans, and no people who, once estranged, are more difficult to win back.
It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.
There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.
It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless.
The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.
Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.