His name is Rufus II-but the II is silent.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

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

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

We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.

It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.