There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.