You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
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.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.