I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose

An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.

You gotta have some balls to be a female PM in England

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.