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.

We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.

The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure.

I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.