This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.

I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.

I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.

There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.