Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

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.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.