Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'

Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.