When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.

The most dangerous job is to be a president - That's nothing more than a fact!

More than machinery, we need humanity.

I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.

That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.

Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you've got, and fix it as you go.

In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky.

The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.