It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.