Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

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

If you don't vote Socialist/Communist before you are twenty, you have no heart - if you do vote Socialist/Communist after you are twenty, you have no 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.

What is said behind my back is said to my ass.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.