A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.

Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.