I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

The only guide to man is his conscience.

Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.