War is horrible, but slavery is worse, and you may be sure that the British people would rather go down fighting than live in servitude.

War is a hard school, but the British, once compelled to go there, are attentive pupils.

I have a good memory, and that helps. When that fails there is always a tape-recorder to fall back on.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies... the mystic chords of memory... will swell the chorus of the Union... touched by the better angels of our nature.

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.

When you borrow money from another country for the sacred purpose of national rehabilitation, it is wrong to squander it upon indulgences.