No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

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.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

History is written by the victors.

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.

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.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.