Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful.

I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Gentlemen, if we don't cut spending we will be bankrupt. Yes, the medicine is harsh, but the patient requires it in order to live. Should we withhold the medicine? No. We are not wrong. We did not seek election and win in order to manage the decline of a great nation.

[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything-security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them. The freedom they were seeking was freedom from responsibility. It is no wonder, then, that they ceased to be free. In the modern world, we should recall the Athenians' dire fate whenever we confront demands for increased state paternalism.