The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses.

As for our majority... one is enough.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

There is no gambling like politics.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.