Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.
One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.
In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Good Will.
There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
You create your own universe as you go along.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
The most important thing about education is appetite.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Good and great are seldom in the same man.
You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.