I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

When you are going through hell, don't stop.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party