Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.