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.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
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 always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
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 truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
