You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant.

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.

Watch your character for your character is your destiny.