There is no working middle course in wartime.

Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

Things don't happen to me. I happen to things!