As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.

If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.

You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.