The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end.

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don't want it; we won

The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.