An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.

Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

We are weakened and we are tired, but we are not done yet.

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

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