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.

It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

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.

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.