Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.

Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don't want it; we won

The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Un pesimista ve la dificultad en cada oportunidad; un optimista ve una oportunidad en cada dificultad

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.