Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.