Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.

Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.

In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.

There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.

Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.

The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose.

There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.