I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.

All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.