Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

When Iraq becomes strong enough in our opinion to stand alone, we shall be in a position to state that our task has been fulfilled, and that Iraq is an independent sovereign state. But this cannot be said while we are forced year after year to spend very large sums of money on helping the Iraqi government to defend itself and maintain order.

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.