Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path.

I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.

I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.

It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.

The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.