Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.

Nothing should be done for spite's sake.