It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large.

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.

In Franklin Roosevelt there died the greatest American friend we have ever known - and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the New World to the Old.

When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you're ugly. I can quit smoking.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.

The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.