Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life most of which never happened.
Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the hard may be for without victory there is no survival.
Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.
Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the road may be for without victory there is no survival.
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.