You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.

We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.