The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are?

If you're going to walk through hell, keep going.

Good and great are seldom in the same man.