"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

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

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

When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".

The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on, these are, in a political and economic sense, the middle class. They are for the most part unorganised and unselfconscious.