Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit
If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.
Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment
The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.