We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.

It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze reaches only conclusions which, however seemingly vindicated at a given moment, are inexorably effaced by time.

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

These are great days.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.