You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

No democratic world will work as it should work until we recognize that we can only enjoy any right so long as we are prepared to discharge its equivalent duty. This applies just as much to states in their dealing with one another as to individuals within the states.

If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

Responding to the question "If Mr. Stalin dies, what will be the effect on international affairs?" That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

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.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.