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 required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.

I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.