Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.

They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.

Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.