Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.