A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Islam is a dangerous religion.

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude.

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

I find it an absolute pleasure to read travel guides, especially the Michelin guides, and their description of places I know I'll probably never visit. I spend a large part of my life reading descriptions of restaurants.

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.