The arts are essen­tial to any com­plete national life. The State owes it to itself to sus­tain and encour­age them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the rev­er­ence and delight which are their due.

How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

All wisdom is not new wisdom.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.