I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.

Writing is an adventure.

I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.

I never slept as soundly as the night following Pearl Harbor. For I knew that The American Race would now be entering the war and it would never be the same.