“Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.”
“It is far easier to make war than to make peace.”
“War is too important a matter to be left to the military.”
“A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.”
“A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.”
“America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.”
“When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.”