“I know now why you cry, but it's something I can never do.”

“I think it is important that we go and bring both of the parties together. The more we go to the left, the more we go to the right, I believe of what President Eisenhower said, "Politics is like the road. The left and the right represents the gutter, and the middle is drivable."”

“Through discipline, and determination one can change anything and everything about him - his habits, his outlook on life”

“If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling.”

“Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.”

“Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.”

“There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.”

“I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster”

“Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest”

“Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.”

“I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”

“I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.”

“I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.”

“The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation”