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

It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Never let a good crisis go to waste

I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.