Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done.

You cannot trust the interests of any class entirely to another class; and you cannot trust the interests of any sex to another sex.

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.