Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.