I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.

He looks like a female llama who has been surprised in the bath.

Nothing is perfect on the human stage.

These are great days.

I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.