It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.