You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit