Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.