Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives.

"I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy.

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.