A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?

Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses.

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.