Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.