Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.

My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.