The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations [Belgium and Serbia] were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.

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