Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.

Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.