All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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

It is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it.

I did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head.

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 myself find waiting more tiring than action.

Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.