Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
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.
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 our potential.
A joke is a very serious thing.
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.
History is written by the victors.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Study history study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
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.
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.