Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations [Belgium and Serbia] were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done.