“Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig! He looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal.”

Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all other forms that have been tried from time to time.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time, a tremendous whack.

Never, never, never give up.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.