No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.

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.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.