Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.