A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
A joke is a very serious thing.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month,
and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better
clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production.
Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of
his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor,
duty, mercy, hope.
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path
of improvement.
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Although present on the occasion, I have no clear recollection of the events leading up to it.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
At every crisis the Kaiser crumpled. In defeat he fled; in revolution he abdicated; in exile he remarried.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver,
the less he demands in slaughter.
Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
[Clement Attle is] a sheep in sheep's clothing.
Clement Attlee is a modest man who has a good deal to be modest about.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees
all others.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body.
It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run
away from anything. Never!
Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life of service to others and held
such a simple faith, that she had no fears at all and did not seem to mind very much.
