It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.

[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.

I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment - and yet - I can't help it - I enjoy every second of it.

Without victory there is no survival!

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.