A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.