What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.

He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It was apparent to me that this bad man saw quite clearly the shadow of slowly and remorselessly approaching doom, and he railed at fortune for mocking him with the glitter of fleeting success.

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange