Great Throughts Treasury

"Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps."

"Of all the bigotries that ravage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic. It has no basis in reason, it is not rooted in faith, it aspires to no ideal."

"A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman."

"Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. "

"Liberty has restraints but no frontiers. "

"You cannot feed the hungry on statistics."

"The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them."

"Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired."

"Sincerity is the surest road to confidence."

"There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks."

"Modern warfare, we discovered, was to a far greater extent than ever before a conflict of chemists and manufacturers. Manpower, it is true, was indispensable, and generalship will always, whatever the conditions, have a vital part to play. But troops, however brave and well led, were powerless under modern conditions unless equipped with adequate and up-to-date artillery (with masses of explosive shell), machine-guns, aircraft and other supplies. Against enemy machine-gun posts and wire entanglements the most gallant and best-led men could only throw away their precious lives in successive waves of heroic martyrdom. Their costly sacrifice could avail nothing for the winning of victory."