Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

Greatness is a quality of character and is not the result of circumstances.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.

Charm never made a rooster.

The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better, and therefore he used to say, Tyranny tempered by assassination, but lots of assassination. People say, If the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better. I say the Congress is too damn representative. It's just as stupid as the people are; just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish.