A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.
A joke is a very serious thing.
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, “If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea.” Churchill’s response, “Ma’am if you were my wife I would drink it.
A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.