Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
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.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.