It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears.

There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.

Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.