Wars are not won by evacuations.

It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.