The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.