A good party man puts his party above himself and his country above his party.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress....Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud....Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.

Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory - a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.