The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power.

There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant.

If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.