They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.

One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend, it would be the cause of the British Empire in India ... Our fight is hard. It will also be long ... But win or lose, we must do our duty. If the British people are to lose their Indian Empire, they shall do so with their eyes open.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.