Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.

The more the planners, the worse the plans.

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.

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.

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

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.

All prejudices are equally fatal to good government.