Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.