No one ever wins a war.
Although Mr. Edison was called ‘The Wizard’ of the electrical world and everyone thought that electricity was the coming thing, he actually encouraged me to go with my second car.
There can be no lasting peace where hatred exists. Hatreds will continue to arise as long as the causes of war are not rooted out and exposed.
A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.
Competition is the lifeblood of industry.
People who are capable of and fit for freedom liberate themselves from physical thralldom by substituting mind for muscle.
Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.
We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.
After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.
Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don’t want it; we won
I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty… break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.
