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.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.

It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.

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

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.