England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.

These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some affairs for mutual and general advantage. I do not view the process with any misgivings. I could not stop it if I wished. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands, and better days.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.