It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]

You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.

[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!

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 am easily satisfied with the very best.

We are not meant to find peace in this world. The spirit of life cannot exist without effort. Destroy the rivalries of man and nations and you will have destroyed all that makes for betterment and progress on Earth.