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

The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent.

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.

Victory is only wrested by running risks.

And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.