Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.

Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.

I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself

One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

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.

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.