It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.