Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.