George Bernard Shaw

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.

People didn’t want war. We were forced in it. How fast we finish it depends on how free a hand our generals and admirals have. The less interference they get from the politicians the quicker they’ll end it.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.

The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience.

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don’t want it; we won

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.