If you wanted nothing done at all, Balfour was the man for the job.

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

We are not meant to find peace in this world. The spirit of life cannot exist without effort. Destroy the rivalries of man and nations and you will have destroyed all that makes for betterment and progress on Earth.

An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.

There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it