Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.

Success is never final.

You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.

What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed by their tryanny?

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?

We shape our buildings and they shape us.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.