[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

How often in life must one be content with what one can get!

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

There must not be lacking in our leadership something of that spirit of the Austrian corporal who, when all had fallen into ruins around him, and when Germany seemed to have fallen into chaos, did not hesitate to march forth against the vast army of victorious nations and has already turned the tables decisively against them.

I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.