“If you find something you really love, you will never work again.”
“There is no working middle course in wartime.”
“Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.”
“My ability to persuade my wife to marry me was quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half.”
“Things don't happen to me. I happen to things!”
“Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride.”
“I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.”
“I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment - and yet - I can't help it - I enjoy every second of it.”
“Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.”
“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.”
“It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.”
“The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.”
“We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.”
“The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.”
“The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.”
“If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.”
“Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.”
“Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.”
“Science should be on tap, not on top.”
“When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne”
“Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.”
“Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.”
“A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.”
“A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.”
“If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.”
