When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.