Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.

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

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.