I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.

In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose