Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king. He is an independent force in the world.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms.

You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

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.