Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.

Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.