It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.

No matter. The dead bird does not leave the nest.

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.