Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.

In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.