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

I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas... I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes... It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gases: gases can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected.

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

Never give in, never! Be it concerning large things or small things, never, never, never!

Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care ... We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.