Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.

Science has given to this generation the means of unlimited disaster or of unlimited progress. There will remain the greater task of directing knowledge lastingly towards the purpose of peace and human good.

This movement among the Jews is not new... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing... It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat.