No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative.

Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.