Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.

At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.