On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert. Success beyond all dreams crowded this sombre, magnificent venture of our American allies. The detailed reports ... could leave no doubt in the minds of the very few who were informed, that we were in the presence of a new factor in human affairs, and possessed of powers which were irresistible.

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.