A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants.

A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.

The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.

Today, as chief Of the guardians of the seas Of the land of the dawn, I gaze up with awe At the rising sun!

Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error.

Enlightenment lacks any form of judgment.

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.

I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results.

All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

The great thing about media now is that you have 360 degrees worth of opinions and can find whatever you want and tune out whatever you want.

Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.

We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.