Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

Lloyd George is a one-eyed fellow in blinkers.

A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.

Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.

Do 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.

We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators.

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.