The price of greatness is responsibility.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.

They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?