A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.

We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.