The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.

In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable