Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast, are denied access.

I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them.

The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.

The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night

The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.

Hounds follow those who feed them.

I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.