A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.