Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.
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.
man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer
I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even rely upon it; but one can never expect anything from the gratitude of a nation.