When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests.

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.

[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.

When Iraq becomes strong enough in our opinion to stand alone, we shall be in a position to state that our task has been fulfilled, and that Iraq is an independent sovereign state. But this cannot be said while we are forced year after year to spend very large sums of money on helping the Iraqi government to defend itself and maintain order.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.