...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.

It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.

It's Never Over 'till it's over! Never Give Up! Never.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.