It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty minutes, it will take me a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready now.

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.