We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.