Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

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.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without...

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...

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.