War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. Having a family guarantees that you have a built in support system, and although that support system may not always be what you want it to be, when it comes down to the wire, your family will love you and stand behind you, no matter what.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.