When a new book appears one should read an old one.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state.

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.