The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.
At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.
For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.
Nancy, if I were your husband I’d drink it.
Never give in, never! Be it concerning large things or small things, never, never, never!
Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.
When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.
The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.
Dead birds don’t fall out of their nests.
Don’t be careless about yourselves – on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men to laugh – get good humor under fire – war is a game that’s played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.
No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.
And a pamphlet called Pick me up There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler.
I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.
I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.
You can measure a man’s character by the choices he makes under pressure.
We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o’clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.
The reservist is twice the citizen.
But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?