A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of all fears.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Too often the strong silent man is silent because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

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.