If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.

To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.

An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.