"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty"
"A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality"
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on"
"A joke is a very serious thing"
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject"
"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me"
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat"
"I have never developed indigestion from eating my words"
"I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk"
"I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns"
"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter"
"I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting"
"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals"
"He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire"
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life"
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else"
"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse"
"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite"
"When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise"
"We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect"
"We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty"
"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out"
"We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years"
"We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm"
"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders"
"War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can"
"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival"
"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information"
"Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent"
"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true"
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is"
"The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all"
"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning"
"The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult"
"The price of greatness is responsibility"
"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself"
"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it"
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty"
"The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read"
"Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft"
"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon"
"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong"
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery"
"Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all"
"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"
"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better"
"Politics is 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"
"We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened"
"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English"
"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure"
