The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.

An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange

Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.

This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension. We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among the nations, and that instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, may become a perennial fountain of world prosperity.