Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired.