I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
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To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
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The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
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Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose.
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
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Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
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Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?
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Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
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There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
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I like a man who grins when he fights.
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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
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I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
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Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
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Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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My grandfather had the highest regard for your grandfather as a wartime leader,
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