The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

An earthquake is such fun when it is over.

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.