It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms.

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

A joke is a very serious thing.

The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you

The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.

I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.