Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself

You know, in war, you don't have to be nice. You only have to be right.

Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise.

Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society.

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.