When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze reaches only conclusions which, however seemingly vindicated at a given moment, are inexorably effaced by time.

The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering.