We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

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

Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.