You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.

He is like a female llama surprised in her bath.