Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

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