It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.
There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.
It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.
Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.
Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.
People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty.
I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don’t like it.
Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!
If a woman has “It,” she doesn’t need anything else; but if she doesn’t have “It,” it doesn’t matter what else she has.
I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.
Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off.
Preparation is – if not the key to genius – then at least the key to sounding like a genius.
With integrity, nothing else counts. Without integrity, nothing else counts.
I’d rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.
Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.
Dear citizen, if you were my love, I’d stole your money!? Admin if you were my love, I would ask you for divorce and spousal support!
There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.
The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose.
There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one’s decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.
If I had my way, I would write the word ‘insure’ over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.