Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.

If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.

One ought to be just before one is generous

This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.