I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.

I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.