I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.

If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Memory should be the starting point of the present.

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don't swallow it.

Don't join the book burners!