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.

Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

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.

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.

Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.