Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.

In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.