We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

There is no working middle course in wartime.

Without victory there is no survival!

In war, truth is often the first casualty.

A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.

Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

He is like a female llama surprised in her bath.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you -- a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.

Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

There's something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.