When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.