America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.