If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us.

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

I'd rather be right than consistent.

I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.