The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.