The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.