No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional.

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum$$$ sodomy$$$ and the lash.

Delight in smooth sounding platitudes$$$ refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design$$$ played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.

I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

There are few words which are used more loosely than the word Civilization. What does it mean? It means a society based upon the opinion of civilians. It means that violence$$$ the rule of warriors and despotic chiefs$$$ the conditions of camps and warfare$$$ of riot and tyranny$$$ give place to parliaments where laws are made$$$ and independent courts of justice in which over long periods those laws are maintained. That is Civilization$$$ and in its soil grow continually freedom$$$ comfort$$$ and culture.