Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of RoseberyDo not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery