No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.

I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.