This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America...Everything else is swept away.

If you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange