What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea the belief that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and...
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking...
A joke is a very serious thing.
For my part I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to...
History is written by the victors.
Study history study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this...
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as...
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country...
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great...
When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the...
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all...
We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could...
For good or for ill air mastery is today the supreme expression of military...
Great and good are seldom the same man.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
There is no such thing as a good tax.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something sometime in...
If we open a quarrel between past and present we shall find that we have...
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife...
All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word:...
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes in which...
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure the creed of ignorance and the gospel...
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the...
In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words and I must...
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the...
Success is not final failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue...
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes...
To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.
