Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.
It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.
Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, and timid policies offer a path to safety.
I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.
Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!
The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.
We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.
Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.
He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.
I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.
In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.
They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.
There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title “The Sinews of Peace.”
The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.
At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.
There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.