He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up and brushing himself down became a minor art form, ruefully admired by his contemporaries.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.

No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.

In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.