The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.

It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!

Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.