A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.

A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.