There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.

The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.

There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.

In times of horror and torment prayer is a great thing Nobody answers But at least it stops you from thinking.

Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in the mind forever, and the intervals being hazy, half-recalled times when I have a fair idea of what was happenng, in a general way, but cannot be sure of dates or places or even the exact order in which events took place.

I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen... go wrong

I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.