I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

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

You know, in war, you don't have to be nice. You only have to be right.