Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.

We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.

Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the first two years it was difficult to believe that they would ever end.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.