The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it

Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.

The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits

Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster.

It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze reaches only conclusions which, however seemingly vindicated at a given moment, are inexorably effaced by time.