When a new book appears one should read an old one.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.

Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path.

There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.