There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

Why should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this turbulent and mighty continent? And why should it not take its rightful place with other great groupings and help to shape the onward destinies of men?

The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.