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 we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.

Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.