If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

I myself find waiting more tiring than action.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.

Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.