Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?

Never pass up the chance to sit down or go to the bathroom.

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.

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

Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.