A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful moneymaker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary but believing in the individual, his rights, and his enterprise, and rejecting the socialist panacea.

One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.