A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.

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

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

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

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trial ...

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.