From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

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

All wisdom is not new wisdom.

The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.

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

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.