If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose