I'd rather be right than consistent.

Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Watch your habits, they determine your character.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself.

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.