A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.

What a fool I have been!