There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

Watch your habits, they determine your character.

If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both