Rooster, maybe well crows, but the eggs still bears the chicken.

We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

Countries trade with each other - or to be more precise people buy and sell from each other across frontiers - because that is the way to advance their interests. We do not need to beg people to trade with us - as long as we have something that people want, of a quality they expect and at a price they are prepared to pay.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.

You cannot make an omelet without breaking some balls