Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)

It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash the paint about so freely that your words cease to have any real meaning and cease to carry any sense of affront even to those to whom they are applied and cease to bear any connection with any genuine feeling of indignation on the part of those on whose behalf they are spoken.

There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.

The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.