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.
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.
We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.
Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.
You don’t make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.
The maxim, “Nothing prevails but perfection,” may be spelled PARALYSIS.
Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.