I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)

Is it possible to get another key? I think I've left mine in the room.

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.

Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.