Success always demands a greater effort.

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.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Put your confidence in us – give us your faith and your blessing and under Providence all will be well. We shall not fail or falter, we shall not weaken or tire – neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long drawn trails of vigilance or exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you — a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

A fanatic is someone who won’t change his mind, and won’t change the subject.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.