Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.