Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.