Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I shall have some other motive for taking chances than merely "love of adventure".

The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.

Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.