I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.

We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.