I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.

Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Never give in, never! Be it concerning large things or small things, never, never, never!