"Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war"

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions"

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile"

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth"

"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience"

"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old"

"Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them"

"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young"

"There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young"

"The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members"

"Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week"