You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.

It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.

I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.

Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.

There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant.