I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.

The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.