But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

Storytelling has a narcotic power.

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

But only a fool sails into combat with nature

By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!