Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.
Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.