Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.

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

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

It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.

There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!