We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

There is no working middle course in wartime.

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.

Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.