It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
I like a man who grins when he fights.
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.