For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge