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.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

The cemetery is full of indispensable people.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

Never, ever ever ever ever give up.