I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives.