It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.
Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.
Drift is the demon of democracy.
Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely accepted to perish by degrees.