One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow.

My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.

I drink and smoke and I am two hundred percent fit.

I love learning, but hate being taught.

...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.