Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society.

Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Oh, what is the matter with poor Puggy-Wug? Pet him and kiss him and give him a hug. Run and fetch him a suitable drug. Wrap him up tenderly all in a rug. That is the way to cure Puggy-Wug.

I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.